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Mike Nielsen

@mike.sdnielsen.com
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Entrepreneur, early seed investor, Python/Django, co-founder of coolshop.com. Ex-CEO of 3D Realms.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..." www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/02/2025
Trump and Vance would NEVER, EVER, talk to Putin like that. And everyone knows it.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/02/2025
Breaking news: 57 percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has exceeded his authority since taking office for his second term, according to a new Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds
Reviews from Americans on President Donald Trump’s second term are mixed to negative, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Elon, I found you some wasteful spending idiot www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Admin. Spends Big Taxpayer Money on Ads Thanking Trump
Trump officials are burning your money on anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly praise the president, amid mass firings and a supposed hunt for waste.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
European Parliament member 👇🏽
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/02/2025
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Drudge Report dubs the Prez Comrade Trumpski. MAGA, is that what you voted for? A coward bowing to Putin ?
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.
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Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...
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Tulsi Gabbard's intel chief nomination clears key Senate hurdle
Senators voted to limit debate on Gabbard's nomination, paving the way for a final vote later this week.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/02/2025
This is supremely fucked up. I mean, I read about this earlier, but to see it in writing is devastating.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing
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Katherine Long @klong.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
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DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/02/2025
Elon Musk and elected officials have falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government. Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.
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Republican ire at USAID finds an unusual target: Politico
Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government. Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...
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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15/11/2024
Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken: Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
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