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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 3h
I remember that name www.reuters.com/world/us/sta...
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Staffer with Elon Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online
One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6h
Scoop: I obtained audio of an explosive meeting in which Bari Weiss' handpicked foreign editor unleashed in a tirade against her journalists, in which she defended her decisions and warned that "insubordination" is "legal grounds for firing." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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CBS’ Foreign Explosion
Bari Weiss’ handpicked foreign editor unleashed an explosive tirade at CBS News staffers, threatened insubordinate journalists with firing, and clashed with correspondent Holly Williams, according to audio obtained by Status.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 12h
You mean pump her up with whatever meth cocktail they’ve concocted?
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 12h
wow. That was cringeworthily bad. I understand being nervous, but that was like a jr high kid with huge anxiety issues being forced to give a class presentation in front of a bunch of bullies.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 14h
Some might even call them deplorable
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 14h
It started during the first Trump Administration and didn’t get better under Biden. There was always some listeria or salmonella outbreak and the quality never improved after COVID.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 14h
Will you accept Democrats remained silent every time she was attacked with some even going after her themselves?
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump is Trump but my inbox is full of Breaking News from multiple supposedly respectable news outlets that Ukraine and Russia agreed to an energy ceasefire. They need to be held accountable for repeating lies. It should be unacceptable
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s a sad state of affairs that very few democrat politicians have defended her against the vile attacks by the president. Their silence says everything
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When she was attacked with liquid at her town hall last year, there were plenty (not republicans) saying she staged it. There are lots of people on here who have basically caller her a pathological liar and who use the same talking points as Trumpists when discussing her anti-semitism.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn’t
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Time to denaturalize Musk and Melania
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A large percentage of democrats would like to see her denaturalized as well due to her criticism of Israel
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This brings new meaning to at first if you don't succeed… “Former Montgomery County District Attorney Doug Evans, who is white, tried Flowers, who was Black, six times for the shooting deaths”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Putin is ruthless and will stop at nothing
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Didn’t realize the author was Asian. Strange statement from someone writing about California.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“leaving then unprepared for life in a country that is only 4% Asian overall.” Sounds like the author doesn’t get out much or lives a very segregated life. I’m curious what the Asian population is for under 30 year olds in major metropolitan areas.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She sounds like she’s talking from personal experience
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good news is that black people don’t get those just bs anymore. Bad news is that Hispanics do.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nurses are some of the biggest nutcases.racist too
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you make less than (state) minimum wage you can open a TrumpIRA account and they’ll give you $1k. That should definitely help
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What’s not believable is how those people can just stand there and listen to that disaster. They should have immediately walked out.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Pro life” court
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He wants high testosterone hairless men?
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s rage bait.The entire point is linking Smith to two black people trying to prosecute Trump. People will see nothing more than their faces and nothing enrages them more than seeing black who are subservient.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I thought they were interns
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now it’s 25 million crossing the border. Surprised its not up to a billion now
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s for the audience who sees a black woman trying to prosecute the former president. The reasoning is nothing more than racism.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I‘m sure the smirking interns in the back provided the questioning
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How many Hispanics are even enrolled in their medical school? If anything white people are overrepresented. Getting a high MCAT score doesn’t mean you will be a good doctor. There needs to be some kind of morality test because the white doctor profession has its share of creeps and crooks.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They said they cancelled policies of people who don’t exist. How does that even work?
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If any of them get food stamps or housing assistance, does that mean they get denied green cards?
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I was going to ask is it voluntary or to they just snap away? The last time I flew internationally about ten years ago, I was greated with immigration taking my picture before I even reached passport control. I don’t remember having a choice in the matter
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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE launches massive private system to transport detainees across Texas under armed guard
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New private system to transport ICE detainees across Texas under armed guard
A firm tied to the Florida detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz has a $382 million contract for "armed ground transportation" of ICE detainees in Texas.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Leading this week’s #AbuseofPowerWatch: Two US citizen teens had plans to drive to a recruiting office to sign up to serve their country as Marines. But their country violently detained them instead. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/abuse-of-p...
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Abuse of Power Watch - September 18th
A weekly collection of articles and stories of the federal government’s abuses of power.
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I really hope there is a God who is judgmental. (Actually maybe I shouldn’t wish that… be careful what you wish for and all that)
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2026
We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wrote last week that true journalism is the act of stopping powerful people from being able to blatantly lie unchallenged. This is what true journalism looks like: showing when the authorities are lying through their teeth.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📌 ICYMI: People keep on asking us if there is any connection between the persecuted Cambridge Professor Jason Arday, and the disgraced Reform UK policy head James Orr. There are many One of this month’s most-read stories.
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For anyone wondering about the cozy relationship the Ellisons have with the President and his family and how that relationship is driving and economically profiting from this merger. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad Bazzi
The president’s son-in-law is once again at the center of an international business deal that will require administration approval
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2026
First look at the statutory diffusion of Jim Crow laws targeting railroad and streetcar laws (the same types that applied in Plessy v. Ferguson).
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Over 600,000 individuals have been abducted by ICE under Trump’s second administration, “more than the population of Atlanta, Baltimore, Milwaukee or the entire state of Wyoming.” "Going after people where they work, where they pray, in the streets, at the schools.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch - September 4th
A weekly collection of articles and stories of the federal government's abuses of power.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Israeli company NSO developed spyware with research funded by US taxpayers. It then aggressively marketed this spyware to the more brutal dictatorships around the world. One of its customers was Serbia, which, predictably, deployed it against journalists and students. www.ft.com/content/c9c3...
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Students and opposition activists targeted with spyware in Serbia
Twelve of those targeted received notifications from Apple that their iPhones were compromised
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hi Elizabeth, this popped up on my timeline. We actually did a deeper dive into this strike here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...
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In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy (Gift Article)
The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 02/09/2026
JUST IN The challengers of Trump's mail-in voting executive order alerted a federal judge to the whistleblower's explosive warning that the IT system risks a "catastrophic failure" that could "derail" the midterm elections. Background www.allrisenews.com/p/usps-is-de...
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maja-p.bsky.social @maja-p.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What legal means do non-skilled Mexicans have to immigrate into the country? Why should a child be punished for his parents’ decision especially after he has done everything right and demonstrated he is academically in the top 5% of students in the country? DACA students aren’t protected.
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