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Omniscient Trader

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Post-doctoral Fellow in Computer Science. Note: Any statements or opinions made by me here are mine and mine alone. They do not represent the opinions of anyone else. Profile Picture from Master Of Orion II (1996)

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Omniscient Trader @omniscenttrader.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This also illustrates a complete lack of understanding of how peer-review works. No one knows which conference their paper is likely to appear in.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
BIG NEWS. This expands the circuit split, which is now 2-2 (a 7th Circuit panel split 1-1-1). And importantly, it's a decision out of the 11th Circuit, in which multiple large detention centers sit (Georgia, Florida, and Alabama); meaning more people detained there should be able to get bond.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I’m shocked that Trump would so callously and recklessly expose people to toxic substances.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Supreme Court and GOP are about to make redistricting a complete mess nationwide. It’s going to become pure tit for tat. Some seats flip red, some flip blue, and by the time the dust settles everything just evens out. But the whole country will be gerrymandered in the process.
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Omniscient Trader @omniscenttrader.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The worst part is that it is not even a misdemeanor to be here illegally; it's a civil infraction. That is why when someone is deported they get a reduced level of due process (they are not entitled to a jury for example), but deportation is not supposed to be a criminal punishment.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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FBI formally refuses to share evidence in Alex Pretti killing, Minnesota investigators say
Minnesota's top investigative agency said Monday the federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/01/2026
A quick point. If you had a friend that whined and complained and was always playing “victim” as much as Donald does, I’d be willing to bet you wouldn’t be his friend for long. Such a whiney belly aching baby. Also Epstein
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oddmanout @oddmanout.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s parents deserve to know who murdered their son in cold blood and to face them in court.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

John Mitnick
@JohnMitnick
I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department.

I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty.

Impeach and remove Trump—now.


George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
@gtconway3d
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. 

The thugs wrestled him to the ground.  They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times.  They murdered him.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/01/2026
Again…. Just under 48 hours ago….. seven democrats and all the so called “reasonable” (concerned on Twitter and cnn types) voted to fully fund ICE at its bloated, out of control level. ICE is better funded than most militaries
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/01/2026
ICE is detaining a 5 year old boy. If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I've been waiting for this. Independent autopsy of Renee Good is in. It's strong evidence against Agent Ross, given what it means about the second or third shot through the left-side window. It's the second and third shots that make the easiest criminal case of a willful killing.
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Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation
The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good have been released as part of a law firm's civil investigation, two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless…. Remember this. ~ Robert Reich
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/01/2026
Question. If Joe Biden called Greenland, “Iceland” four times…. What would the right be saying?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Criminal investigations for nothing but speech; the administration’s contempt for the First Amendment could not be more clear.
The subpoenas suggest that the Justice Department is examining whether Walz's and Frey's public statements disparaging the surge of officers and federal actions have amounted to criminal interference in law enforcement work. The law under which they are investigating the two officials, a federal statute on conspiracy to impede a federal investigation, is similar to the charges filed against protesters whom federal officials allege have attempted to block immigration officers as they do their work.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sure seems like ICE is gping into a violence spiral in MN. They act out, people monitor and protest, they get madder and more agitated, people monitor and protest more. They‘re going to kill more people, administration’s going to congratulate and encourage more, they’re gonna kill MORE people.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14/01/2026
We do not have kings or dictators in America. These monuments belong to the people. Our bill would prevent Trump, or any other president, from using our public monuments to glorify & worship themselves.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
IF YOU WANTED to design a quiet coup in a republic that still mouths the words “checks & balances,” you wouldn’t roll tanks down Penn. Avenue. You’d hand a volatile president a match, dress it up as “Article II,” and watch six robed partisans strike it against the wiring of the administrative state.
iamdonnyevans.substack.com
The Roberts Court Poised to Crown King Donald—with the Last Independent Agencies Headed to Slaughter
SCOTUS case Trump v. Slaughter lets a president fire through independent agencies, gut Congress’s guardrails, and put every regulator on a loyalty leash.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
inside the country. It cannot be used to deport residents, detain people already here, revoke lawful status, or shut down asylum, because asylum rights are created by Congress and cannot be overridden by presidential
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
language to suggest he has unlimited power over immigration, and the law doesn’t work the way he implies. Courts have consistently ruled that 212(f) is not a blank check: it only applies to people attempting to enter, not to immigrants, asylum seekers, or undocumented individuals already
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
President Biden - never stopped being presidential even after going through cancer treatment, showing great leadership and stamina. The felon couldn't be bothered being presidential, is destroying our country and pardons criminals like himself.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/11/2025
It’s not often that the governors of California and Florida are on the same page, but this week they’re aligned in opposition to the White House’s latest plan to expand offshore oil drilling near both their shores.
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Trump’s plan for drilling off California and Florida faces bipartisan opposition
His "idiotic proposal" is "dead in the water," says Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/11/2025
Even a decade ago I'd have far sooner predicted that the US would succumb to authoritarian rule than that it would become a state where vaccines were unavailable. But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
politico.com
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
A Kennedy adviser said he wants to preserve the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The health secretary's anti-vaccine allies prefer it collapse.
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FADP @fadp.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In its prideful quest to be the deadliest state in the nation, Florida has created more victims. It has slammed the door on healing, hope, and redemption. Florida has mastered the cold mechanics of killing and shown no interest in anything beyond that function. www.fadp.org/statement-on...
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Statement on the Execution of Richard Barry Randolph (Malik Abdul-Sajjad) - Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Tonight, We the People of the State of Florida executed U.S. Army Veteran Richard Barry Randolph (Malik Abdul-Sajjad) for the 1988 murder of Minnie Ruth McCollum. Tonight’s execution shows, with painf...
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 29/11/2025
This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in the history of the United States and there’s no close second.
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is. There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
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Alan Stamm @alanstamm.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"The executive branch is weaponizing its official communications channels to mock opponents, degrade public trust and transform the people's website into a partisan playground." — @azzacohen.bsky.social, White House videographer for Kamala Harris, at @The Contrarian
contrarian.substack.com
Split Screen: ‘MySafeSpace’ and the Collapse of whitehouse.gov
Visual language is never neutral. It shapes our subconscious understanding of power, legitimacy, and identity.
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Omniscient Trader @omniscenttrader.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
That's my Representative! *cries*
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I thought it was strange that we almost went 24 hours without a new Mills scandal. That countdown has ended.
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 20/11/2025
Read the joint statement from myself, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO-06), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06):
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
4. But that second indictment was never presented to or voted on by the grand jury Instead, the foreperson and Halligan signed it, and it was handed up in open court. The result is that the operative indictment in the Comey case is one that the grand jury did not actually vote on.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
3. Meanwhile, someone (??) conveyed news of the no bill on Count 1 to Halligan (or her office). Halligan’s office then drafted a new, two-count indictment that removed Count 1 from the original indictment presented to the grand jury.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Trump's people want a lot of bad things that will make America an authoritarian regime. But they haven't succeeded and it would take a while for them even to end democracy, much less build fascism. So act as if you live in a democracy - because you do. The End. /20x
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
So, fine, you don't care what the definition of "fascism" is. But please, think through how differently your strategies would be if America were a fascist state right now. It's not. You have all the powers of a democracy. Use them. Don't buy into the "fascism is now" drama. /16
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