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Mister X, PhD

@suimannux.bsky.social
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Security Researcher. Coder. Capital-B Black. Aroace from outa space. Malevelon Creek veteran. He/they. Mentor. Feminist. Egalitarian. Engineer. PhD'20 CS. Passionate maintainer of open source. Proficient in the glob & literal magics 🪄 Opinions my own!

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 18h
“Many critics inside the department and elsewhere who view [Pete] Hegseth as a joke who makes a colossal ass of himself also see him as enormously, relentlessly effective.” @swin24.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social on why we shouldn't laugh off the ‘Secretary of War’. zeteo.com/p/secretary-...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18h
The three children and a teacher killed in a special education classroom at an Oregon elementary school included a 5-year-old boy whose family says they are “broken and lost” after the shooting.
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Oregon school shooting victims include 5-year-old whose family is ‘broken and lost’
The shooting occurred at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday and claimed the lives of three children and one teacher.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 19h
"Gender-affirming care is life-saving for many ... Despite overwhelming evidence demonstrating the benefits of gender-affirming care, dozens of states across the U.S. have banned such treatment options for trans youth and young adults, often using misinformation to justify doing so."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19h
Elon Musk labeling driving upside down and then falling as "flying" is a really good indication for how incredibly fucking dumb he is and thinks everyone else is.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h
Starlink access still not fully restored for Ukraine’s military, says Zelenskyy
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Starlink access still not fully restored for Ukraine’s military, says Zelenskyy
Ukrainian president says US limiting access was a ‘dangerous and unpleasant surprise’, amid reports the order came from inside White House * Europe live – latest updates Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the Ukrainian military’s access to the Starlink satellite internet service has not yet been fully restored, as media reports suggested the order to throttle the service had come from within the White House. Zelenskyy met European leaders on Friday in Brussels, where he asked the EU for another €70bn next year to fund Ukraine’s defence against Russia. Continue reading...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/10/2026
Devastating. Little kids. My heart goes out to the victims, their loved ones, and the people of Oregon. No family should ever have to suffer like this—and there have been over 50 school shootings just this year. Congress must do much more to prevent gun violence.
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Live updates: Children among 4 killed in Oregon school shooting, suspect dead
Follow live coverage as victims are hospitalized in a school shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. The suspect was fatally shot.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This reminds me of Hartman’s noting that post Reconstruction Black people had all of the responsibilities of citizenship but none of its protections.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Last week: We revealed that Trump immigration agents have detained more than 500 citizens This week: House members introduced the Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act The bill's sponsor, @fernandez.house.gov, says our reporting was "the genesis" fernandez.house.gov/news/documen...
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"Several judges accused the administration of using the election laws as a pretext to suppress voting. ... Several judges marveled at the audacity of the administration's attempt to use an anti-discrimination law to keep people from voting and condemned the administration's logic."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
When people said "drain the swamp" I don't think we realized that meant that only the sticky, chunky bits with too much viscosity to drain would be left to run the government.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16/10/2026
It’s been a decade-plus of this and we’re still marveling at it like a new problem.
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Russia Is Using an Army of Bots to Push Fake US Election Videos
State-backed Matryoshka campaign targeting Democrats inflates view counts of fabricated stories, creating illusion of popularity.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I disagree, categorically, that adding additional justices, even in a "tit-for-tat" way, is a "race to the bottom." I think having a great many *more* judges is actually good for democracy, representation, ethics, and limiting the importance and power of any individual judge. Furthermore...
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I don't know what to tell you—history IS political. It tells the story of how & why the present & its systems came into being. If you're out here saying history is not political, you're either being duped by those in power or you're one of the bad actors.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The wealthiest in our country should pay their fair share into Social Security. Scrap the cap!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"In NAZA, one [Israeli] soldier spoke about using the gruesomely named 'Where's Daddy' AI system to track a 12-year-old girl before killing her. ... [Israel's aerial bombardment campaign] led to the killing of thousands of Palestinian toddlers in their homes[.]"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/10/2026
The @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil — including in yards that the EPA remediated years ago. Here’s how we did it. (Published August)
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The EPA Doesn’t Typically Retest Homes in the Country’s Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.
The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediate...
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Mister X, PhD @suimannux.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yeah... once upon a time... back when Abraham Lincoln was alive They've always been lying liars who lie
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 13/10/2026
After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.
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After Raid of Ilhan Omar's Home and Latest Deadly Shooting, Delia Ramirez Plans Bill to 'Dismantle' DHS
"For 23 years, since its inception, DHS has been utilized by the government to target and persecute those they consider the public enemy," Ramirez said.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
To be frank, this is approaching Charles I's attempt to arrest the Five Members in 1642 and we ought to treat it with the same gravity. And perhaps remind those involved how things turned out for Charles I after 'all his birds had flown.' How about we not restage this particular episode?
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"[Maria] asked repeatedly what would happen once she went into labor, but said she never got a clear answer. For months, she did not know where she would give birth or what would happen to her baby ... [One] doctor told Maria she needed to make plans for someone else to care for her baby[.]"
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is an indomitable fighter for working people. Can't wait to join forces in the Senate to pass Medicare for All.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Center-left Democrats used to claim that progressives couldn’t win in swing states and districts. Now, with numerous candidates aligned with Bernie Sanders and [AOC] ahead in the polls, most notably Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed, centrists are moving the goalposts." – @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
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As Progressives Prosper, Centrist Democrats Are Moving the Goalposts
With insurgent candidates poised to win in purple areas in November, establishment Dems could lose their “electability” cudgel.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This can only mean we need to give more dudes more opportunities to publicly talk about AI www.wired.com/story/men-ca...
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Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Protesters at Hegseth's event: "We fucking hate you! You're a fucking war criminal!"
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Mister X, PhD @suimannux.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"This moment" of the white majority undermining US democracy seems to have lasted at the very least since the murder of Reconstruction. A 200+ year moment...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/10/2026
NEW: Inflation data came in and Donald Trump’s failed economic agenda has raised prices for Americans by 5.9%. That means families are paying $3,772 more thanks to inflation under Trump.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Or to put a slightly sharper edge on this idea, it actually isn’t possible to have a democracy that grants full political participation & protection to those bent on destroying it. Something, btw, that the authors of the 14A understood clearly.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I've said for a long time that the economics profession owes Trump big time. You've never had a real world test of "what if a President does everything he can to raise inflation?" a generation of PhD dissertations will be written on this.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“when a nation chooses to forget certain facts about a shameful chapter in its history, that keeps certain claims about the nation’s character open to future demagogues. The politics of memory are difficult, but they represent nonnegotiable terrain for any honest reckoning with the age of Trump.”
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"And when they died there they didn’t just die for me, but they died for you because your freedom is shackled in chains to mine. And until I am free, you are not free either." Fannie Lou Hamer, 1971
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you find yourself writing about a “sticky biological reality”, my advice would be to take your hand out of your pants
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Pantrywoman @pantrywoman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Worth considering in light of Ilhan Omar’s home being searched.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In advance of tomorrow:
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s kind of fascinating how he represents every form of vice. He is a kind of fundamental evil that our most ancient ancestors would understand
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And the five-year-old boy who was in the car? His mom says he's "traumatized" and hasn't spoken since the shooting. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/n...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What if campaigns actually helped people? We tried it in IL-09. Then we put everything we learned into a free handbook:
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
💔 Abolish ICE!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026
If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.
motherjones.com
How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right
From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?
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Mister X, PhD @suimannux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Or becomes a supreme court justice
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Mister X, PhD @suimannux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The 1/6 terror attack is right there. It's the only terror attack since Fort Sumter that could have ultimately ended the American experiment.
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