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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I could barely afford vibranium as it was

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Norweigan Ambassador to the UK

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mchuge.bsky.social @mchuge.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

@ben3d.ca I'm super fascinated by your Exocortex concept. Reading ben3d.ca/blog/origins... noticed a minor typo in the final sentence of the first paragraph - need a "d" at the end of "supervise." Very cool work.

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Origins of Exocortex

The story of how I coined the term "exocortex" in 1999 to describe a synthetic cognitive regulator - a technological layer that participates in the brain's regulatory hierarchy rather than merely ex...

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mchuge.bsky.social @mchuge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

LOL what is this animal they chose for the Nereus logo? The Hammerhead Antelope??

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Great shot from a friend. Chicago Daley Plaza today.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

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Lori Burelle @willbearsmom.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Decided to come out for #HandsOff today in sunny Boise Idaho. Big crowd.

Big crowd of people gathered in front of the Idaho Statehouse

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.

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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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US Weather Agency to Preserve Research Websites in Reversal

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency will preserve access to websites tied to its research division, after previously moving to cancel a cloud web services contract that supports many of its...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Again, to be crystal clear: Nearly 800,000 Americans in Houston, Texas now face taxation without representation.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

One thing nobody's talking about is whether Congress really gave the president the power to singlehandedly upend decades of tax and trade policy.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

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KSV @ksvesq.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Is this what you want your legacy to be, law firms? Pandering to this? Clients come and go but integrity is forever.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

In another instance, the Social Security Administration briefly ended a contract that had allowed parents of newborn babies in Maine to sign their children up for a Social Security number at the hospital, instead requiring them to do so in person at an office. Mr. Dudek said he had ordered the move after watching Janet Mills, Maine’s Democratic governor, clash with Mr. Trump at the White House. He quickly reversed that decision, as well as another to end electronic death reporting in the state.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Democrats can quickly and forcefully address this national security scandal with one of their most powerful tools: Congressional Oversight. These powers include privileged impeachment motions, requests for GAO investigations, congressional letters, and formal or informal hearings.

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What Leverage Do Congressional Democrats Have?

How to Conduct Oversight as the Minority Party.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/03/2025

Circling back on this…

Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Chart showing double the number of protests in 2025 than occurred during the same time period in 2017.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

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Pentagon removes web references to Colin Powell and others as part of DEI purge. Have you no shame?

YouTube video by Jim Acosta

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
• Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
• Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
• A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
• The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 18/03/2025

The U.S. spends A LOT of money on golf, and not just for Donald Trump's trips to the links... Read @nickturse.bsky.social's story: interc.pt/4kQBQWa 📹 @jordanuhl.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What. The. Actual. F. I guess Republicans in Congress are okay with this? “Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/03/2025

Cloture has met the 60 votes to pass in the senate with the help of at least 9 Democrats: Schumer, Fetterman, Hassan, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Gillibrand, Shaheen, Schatz, and Peters. They sold out our country to Trump and Elon. They're traitors to democracy.

This image displays a list of U.S. senators who support a particular issue or bill, with a total count of 60 supporters. Each senator's name is accompanied by their state abbreviation and, in some cases, a quote or comment. The list includes:

1. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada) – with a quote: "It would cause too many Americans to suffer."

2. Dick Durbin (Illinois)

3. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania) – with a partial quote: "I will never vote to shut the government down."

4. Kirsten Gillibrand (New York)

5. Margaret Wood Hassan (New Hampshire)

6. Gary Peters (Michigan)

7. Brian Schatz (Hawaii)

8. Charles E. Schumer (New York) – with a quote: "For sure, the Republican bill is a terrible option."

9. Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire) (grayed out, possibly indicating a different status or emphasis)

Each senator is represented with a small portrait on the left, and the text is formatted with bold headings and lighter subtext. The list appears to be part of a political report or legislative tracking document.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/03/2025

In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In a statement from @schumer.senate.gov on the Senate floor just now, he said Republicans don’t have the votes in invoke cloture, urged Republicans to pass a clean CR to keep US government open, & claimed the Democratic caucus is “united.” That beats voting that mess into law by a country mile.

Schumer statement:

“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture in the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass. We should vote on that. I hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is authoritarian. The government should not be permitted to shuffle people around to evade a court’s jurisdiction.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. We said from the beginning that this North American trade war is the dumbest in history, and we were being kind.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

19 Democrats voted to confirm Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary responsible for stealing food from the mouths of hungry Americans.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 10/03/2025

I have a piece up at @thebulwark.bsky.social. The Silicon Valley oligarchs like to think of themselves as heroes out of an Ayn Rand novel, but they perfectly encapsulate the *villains* of Atlas Shrugged. 1/

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Elon Musk Thinks He’s an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He’s One of Her Villains.

Recent years have revealed the Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs who worship Rand to be racists, fraudsters, and looters.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 10/03/2025

THEY DID IT!

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/03/2025

I am here to report $20 egg

Photo of a refrigerated case showing clear plastic containers of large organic brown eggs. The type on the right is listed at $19.99 and the type on the left is listed at $21.49. For reference, the “regular” dozen white eggs in Styrofoam packages elsewhere in the case are at least $9.99. This is in a prospect Lefferts Gardens Brooklyn grocery store called ideal food basket.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2025

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

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mchuge.bsky.social @mchuge.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

a photo you’d use as an album cover

Live at The Greek: the UC Berkeley skyline at dusk

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

OMG this motion 🔥🔥🔥—"This chaos has rendered the environment in which defense counsel must operate so unpredictable that the accused's const'l & statutory rights to effective representation have been irreparably compromised.... Moreover, DOGE's campaign of administrative arson is unlawful influence"

MILITARY COMMISSIONS TRIAL JUDICIARY
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA
AE 609
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
ABD AL-RAHIM HUSSEIN
MUHAMMED ABDU AL-NASHIRI

Motion to Abate Proceedings until
DOGE has Finished Dismantling the Defense Department
24 February 2025

1. Timeliness : This motion is timely filed under Military Commissions Trial Judiciary Rule of Court, Rule 3.7.c
2. Relief Requested: The Defense respectfully requests an abatement of all proceedings until 4 July 2026, or until the Department of Government Efficiency finishes dismantling the federal
government, the Defense Department, and the Military Commissions Defense Organization, whichever were to happen sooner.
3. Summary
President Donald Trump's recent Executive Orders and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency ("DOGE") has unleashed a wildfire of chaos across the federal government, the Defense Department, and the Military Commissions Defense Organization
("MCDO”). That was and remains intentional. This chaos has rendered the environment in which defense counsel must operate so unpredictable that the accused's constitutional and statutory rights
to effective representation have been irreparably compromised. And while it continues, it strips defense counsel of the time, predictability, and institutional stability required to mount a competent defense in this capital case. United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984); 10 U.S.C. § 948k(c).
Moreover, DOGE's campaign of administrative arson is unlawful influence. 10 U.S.C. § 949b(a)(2)(C). Superior officers, acting under DOGE's erratic directives, have coerced the Chief Defense Counsel ("CDC”) with the fear of losing retirement benefits, issued directives that

impermissibly intrude upon the professional judgment of defense counsel on pain of being fired, and created a climate of coercion under which every employee fears imminent, summary termination. This unlawful influence disrupts Mr. Al-Nashiri's attorney-client relationships and forces an impossible dilemma on counsel to withdraw or compromise their advocacy due to threats
against their careers.
For these two independently sufficient grounds? (1) the denial ofthe effective assistance of counsel, and (2) the coercive, unlawful influence undermining of defense counsel's independence—the Defense respectfully requests that this Commission abate the proceedings until DOGE's has concluded its campaign of governmental vandalism, and sufficient predictability returns so that defense counsel can re-commence with the representation of the accused in this capital case.

II. Statement of Facts

On 20 January 2025, President Donald Trump was inaugurated as president. Over the past month, the President has issued a torrent of broadly worded Executive Orders to radically restructure the federal government as part of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) initiative. At its inception, Musk described DOGE's goal as "to cut the federal government down to size" through “large-scale firings” and personnel policies whose sole purpose
is to render federal employment so intolerable that it will provoke “a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome." Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy, DOGE Plan to Reform Government, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2025. The DOGE initiative is projected to complete its work by 4 July 2026. Ibid. Mr. Musk himself has specific personal interests that are adverse to DOD, which presently deems him a national security risk. DOD denied him a security clearance and his leadership of the

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

There have been 16 aviation disasters killing 95 people during the Trump administration. On top of the chaos at the FAA, Secretary Kristi Noem announced today that DHS will end its collective bargaining agreement with TSA officers. It had instituted pay raises and covered 42,000 employees.

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Aviation Disasters And Trump Attacks On Air Safety Tracker | Revolving Door Project

Since the start of the Trump administration, there have been no less than 16 aviation disasters, killing a total of 95 people.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Uganda's Ebola outbreak has worsened — but the country’s ability to fight it has been severely weakened by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance, per recording of US officials obtained by @lattif.bsky.social @stephanienolen.bsky.social. Eye-catching + worrying scoop.

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As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear

Two more people are reported dead from the disease, and dozens are in isolation, as the outbreak grows.

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