Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Lists of people who have previously fallen for scams are hugely valuable, because fraudsters know that they are likely to fall for scams again. It’s common to target former victims. It’s called “reloading.” 401033142
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Federal workers are being asked to report on colleagues who are involved in after-work groups for LGBTQ employees: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comLGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge"They’re not asking people, ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'" 661054597
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025*every other nomination announcement* oh cool, that guy has personally harassed me on the internet 325212316
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Meta and X Approve AI Ads Referencing Nazi War Crimes Ahead of German Elections, Research Finds www.adweek.com/media/meta-a...adweek.comMeta and X Approve AI Ads Referencing Nazi War Crimes Ahead of German Elections, Research FindsThe ads promoted extremist hate speech. 1121479
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialShayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Elon Musk says he's going to "fix" X's community notes system because he disagrees with a note on President Trump's claim that Zelensky has a 4% approval rating in Ukraine. Musk also claims community notes are "being gamed by governments & legacy media", but provides no evidence for that claim. 95863226
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/02/2025It's not "controversial," guys, it's a Nazi salute. You can call it out as such. Stop dancing around the truth. 411451270
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/02/2025Just as we warned, Brendan Carr is establishing himself as America's top censor, and he's not being shy about it. And a hearty "fuck you" to anyone who insisted Carr was a "free speech warrior." 25973226
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/02/2025lol. Of course they did. 526773
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The FBI has been pushing junk forensics for years. And when actual scientists call the bureau out, it gets cranky. theintercept.com/2025/02/06/f...theintercept.comForensics Experts Challenged the FBI. So the FBI Tried to Censor Their Conference.An FBI official urged the American Academy of Forensic Sciences to cancel a conference presentation titled “Taking on the FBI.” 312544
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again. 452799746
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Also, Sen. Hawley, about those WWII elections in the UK... www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain... 56212
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Financial Times reports that the Trumpified US delegation is objecting to phrase "Russian aggression" in G7 statements about Ukraine www.ft.com/content/7380... Trump never tires of doing favors for Putin, big and littleft.comUS objects to calling out ‘Russian aggression’ in G7 statement on UkraineTrump administration splits with allies on holding Moscow responsible for war 32506131
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Thread. The end result will be, our kids can’t get vaccines. 59534
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialsteven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.texasobserver.orgICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X AccountThe Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. 11083206315008
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I want to highlight just how closely the Wurman-Barnett arguments in 2025 parallel those made by the United States against Wong Kim Ark’s citizenship in 1898. And rejected. I do not think this can be coincidence. Here’s a summary of the US’s arguments, via @jnovkov.bsky.social 16584139
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialJulia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Ms. Ghasemzadeh described a sweltering encampment, overrun with cats and dogs. Then, she sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: “Please try to help us.” Don't look away. This is happening. Read ⬇️. And, this is why a free press is essential. 0339201
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post 12569092179
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 19/02/2025SCOOP: The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. “I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” she said.wrd.cmUSDS Engineering Director Resigns: ‘This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve’“I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” wrote Anne Marshall in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday. 452271746
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialDavid French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 19/02/2025When I wrote that I was voting for Harris, two of the factors that pushed me from voting third party to voting Harris were Trump's attacks on the rule of law and his reckless position on Ukraine. Harris was right on those issues, and Trump was very wrong. Feeling pretty vindicated right now. 391029101
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Also unclear to me why a Hinds County judge is issuing this order for Clarksdale, which is in another county in another part of the state. 3729
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/02/2025was this literally because it pops on a text search for “trans” 1720741
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialHamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...nytimes.comMigrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle CampThe group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees, who have been denied a... 551069637
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1 10739571104
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialAdam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint: 24138701640
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialRyan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 19/02/2025"We will protect DOGE." This morning, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin — a "stop the steal" organizer and Jan. 6 defendant advocate — sent an email titled "Operation Whirlwind" in which he said he's personally launched an investigation into Sen. Chuck Schumer. The text: 3281754754
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialAndrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025In today's newsletter: deportation ASMR and virtue ethics, or, how inhabiting the character of a vicious sadist for years to own the libs turns people into vicious sadists— www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cruelt...thebulwark.comThe Cruelty Isn’t the Point. It’s the Pleasure.Trump 2.0 is a shared sensual experience in hurting other people. 0338
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Trump trashes Zelensky as a dictator. Still has never said a negative word about Putin. Idk whether Europe/Ukraine has figured this out yet - but you are on your own. You have no friend in the current US govt & Republicans in Congress who said they supported you will say nothing. 2412007406
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19/02/2025This hit me with the force of revelation 517019
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025If I'm reading the White House's fact sheet correctly -- the text of the actual EO doesn't seem to have been posted yet -- today's new executive order is momentous but not because it aggresses against the role of the courts or touches off any sort of constitutional crisis. /1whitehouse.govFact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reins in Independent Agencies to Restore a Government that Answers to the American PeopleRESTORING DEMOCRACY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order ensuring that all federal agencies are 19425135
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialJosh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 19/02/2025BREAKING: Court pushback against Trump executive actions reaches intelligence community as judge halts firing of CIA & ODNI personnel involved in DEI. Judge Anthony Trenga (GWBush appointee)in Alexandria grants administrative stay blocking dismissals of 11 officials www.politico.com/news/2025/02...politico.comJudge halts firing of intel agency personnel involved with DEIThe order may amount to only a temporary reprieve. 13857232
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military: 24796242241
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18/02/2025This is fucking incredible. 13166961723
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/02/2025New from me: I have a go at the one of the Senate's biggest cowards radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i...radleybalko.substack.comProfiles in poltroonery: Senator Thom TillisRecognizing the cowards who choose Donald Trump over our republic 1129284
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/02/2025By the way, the Chief of Criminal is a hugely important person in a U.S. Attorney’s Office, one of the 3 most important people. The involvement of someone that high-level in a decision about a prosecution suggests shenanigans. 161032265
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialMiriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w... 21994963480
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialLee Sanderlin @leeosanderlin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025NEW: Two members of the cultlike Zizians, including its leader Jack LaSota, were arrested in western MD last night. Also arrested was Michelle Zajko, who is a person of interest in the Vermont shootout that killed a Border Patrol agent last month. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...thebaltimorebanner.comTwo members of cultlike Zizian group arrested in Western MarylandJack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, the apparent leader of the Zizians, a cult-like group tied to at least six deaths, was arrested Sunday evening in western Maryland. 044
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Just incredible. 418253
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Hey @washingtonpost.com, why are you such cowards? 30587264
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialHans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Former Danish military Intel officer says Russian reactivation of Cold War communications systems in Baltic region “is clearly signaling it is preparing for confrontation in the Baltic Sea.” 8269141
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/02/2025OK, so that was yesterday. 3002748498
Reposted by @rober42.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/02/2025So much for academic freedom at an accredited university 811266330
![REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmtjkssv6jeneahkgfdxuy7p/bafkreicmr3wybkn6acxmmdf4vuqnzxho2nk7kp3v7tx7vkclg2cjmwvixm)
