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Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Allegory alert!
Photo of a bald eagle under the headline "Bald eagle in Massachusetts euthanized after testing positive for bird flu"
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The Sons of Liberty @sonsofliberty.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Christian Nationalists be like
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/02/2025
Again, this idea has been floating out there for ages, and many other governments around the globe use the concept of shadow cabinets. Why haven't the Dems actually done this?
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/02/2025
Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social
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corruption47.bsky.social @corruption47.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I think Ethan Shaotran is connected to the Shaotran Family Foundation in Palo Alto. The two principals are Victor Shao and Tam Tran. Thus Shaotran
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ptarnation @ptarnation.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
thinking about the conversations you would have when your kid is part of an effort to defund your current university & its medical center research.unl.edu/federal-rese...
from university of Nebraska mechanical engineering, faculty member dr shane farritor
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/02/2025
they just lied they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/02/2025
From Brian Krebs on LinkedIn
A LinkedIn post by Brian Krebs
Investigative reporter, krebsonsecurity.com

I've started posting on LinkedIn about some the things that Trump and Musk are doing to undermine the security and integrity of our government. Mainly because THIS crowd needs to hear it most. 

It's incredible how many people in the infosec space are still defending the actions of DOGE and its dear leader(s). And they're not all crypto bros, sock accounts and AI peddlers; we're talking about people in some pretty important roles, tech-wise.

Well, at least when they reply with the inevitable "stay in your lane" or "I used to like you when you stayed out of politics," they are on record as complicit in and totally okay with how things are going.

For those folks, I would say this: There is zero daylight anymore between the prerogatives of national security and cybersecurity. If you seriously believe otherwise, you should probably go find another profession. As one goes, so goes the other. The systematic efforts by DOGE to dismantle various checks and balances on executive power are very much a threat to both.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
oh snap krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen... cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-...
Internet routing records show that Coristine runs an Internet service provider called Packetware (AS400495). Also known as
"DiamondCDN" Packetware currently hosts teslal./sexy and diamondcdn..com, among other domains.
DiamondCDN was advertised and claimed by someone who used the nickname "Rivage" on several Com-based Discord channels over the years. A review of chat logs from some of those channels show other members frequently referred to Rivage as "Edward."CYBERSCOOP
The child sextortion group 764 and the global collective of loosely associated groups known as "The Com" are using tools and techniques normally used for financially motivated cybercrime tactics
- such as SIM swapping, IP grabbing and social engineering - to commit violent crimes, according to exclusive law enforcement and intelligence reports reviewed by CyberScoop.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/02/2025
Two weeks ago, a largely unknown China-based company named DeepSeek stunned the AI world with the release of an open source AI chatbot. Security researchers have found that the DeepSeek mobile app sends sensitive data over completely unencrypted channels to ByteDance-controlled servers.
arstechnica.com
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
Apple’s defenses that protect data from being sent in the clear are globally disabled.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
NEW: A lot has been written about the young DOGE kids but what about their headmaster Tom Krause? Moe Tkacik finds that he was the cleanup CEO in one of the most scandalous recent private equity buyouts, adopting the same techniques of ransacking the workforce that we're seeing DOGE do now:
prospect.org
The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of DOGE
If Tom Krause is looking for government waste, ‘he should look in the mirror,’ says an ex-employee.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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CNBC, an hour ago: Anduril in talks to raise money at $28 billion valuation as defense tech booms with a photo of that little Oculus fuck rat, Palmer Luckey, a pasty white American guy, in a teal Hawaiian shirt with sloppy curly longish brown hair above his very tall forehead with weird as fuck goatee on his no chin. He looks like he's about 17, but is actually 32. Techcrunch, 7 hours ago: Report: Ilya Sutskever's startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation. He's a Russian born Israeli tech guy who cofounded OpenAI. He is 38 and looks 38. His hairline is all the way on the back of his head and the top and front of his head is scantly covered in what seem to be failing hair plugs. He's a neo-reactionary like Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance, Palmer Luckey, and Elon Musk.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The new cover of TIME.
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vx8omq.bsky.social @vx8omq.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
you love to see it
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vx8omq.bsky.social @vx8omq.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion they were going to doxx everyone else, and noone was going to doxx them"
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Stumptown Research Collective @src161.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hey, we identitified a few of the researchers responsible for creating this DEI Watch List thing. This website still doesnt allow images to be uploaded through Tor tho, so here's the link to a consolidated version of our ID thread on Twitter: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18873...
threadreaderapp.com
Thread by @Stumptown161 on Thread Reader App
@Stumptown161: We've identified 3 of the "researchers" responsible for the "DEI Watch List," a project of the American Accountability Foundation that targets Black federal employees. Cari Fike, 38, of...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo
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DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 06/02/2025
@jonmeltzer.bsky.social we spoke to three Fed employees who were there and confirmed the in-person meeting did not take place—however that report was accurate up to 5 pm—we suspect a subsequent meeting or building intrusion has or will happen today
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 06/02/2025
I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
senate.gov
U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings
Floor Activity
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
White House says bank robber will police himself
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 05/02/2025
When the the enemy has superior numbers, you don't go force-on-force. You have to adopt insurgency tactics. All insurgencies are based on two simple principles: 1. Survive by denying the enemy the choice of time and place. 2. Impose a cost on everything the enemy tries to do.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Elon has 23 staffers. Once the dust settles, you’ll never find a job again. America will remember. Someone will take the fall—and we know exactly who to hold accountable. Stop the games. Quit hiding your names—it really doesn’t work.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I’m here at the rally for US AID (Agency for International Development) down by the Capitol. Y’all! Y’ALL!! The turnout! This is people power! (please help me by adding alt text)
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
People should send me pictures, I’m good at finding out who people are and how bad their haircuts are
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 05/02/2025
Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.
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vx8omq.bsky.social @vx8omq.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A website called DEI Watch List of the "American Accountability Foundation" complete with dossiers has popped up. It has a convenient tip line to snitch on DEI personnel... Article: www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... Site: www.deiwatchlist.com/tipline
deiwatchlist.com
DEI Watch List
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Apparently there’s a “kickoff” meeting between the DOGE people and Department of Labor management planned for tomorrow at 4pm ET. Unrelatedly, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the Dept of Labor is located at 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20210.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate and now head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), told government tech workers in a meeting this week that the administration plans to widely deploy AI throughout the government. Shedd also said the administration…..”
login.gov
The public’s one account for government. | Login.gov
Use one account and password for secure, private access to participating government agencies.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/02/2025
I cannot emphasize enough how stupid it is to publicly threaten DOGE employees with violence. You might think it's fun to blow off steam, but trust me: the FBI raiding your home at 5am is not fun. A federal criminal case will bankrupt you and ruin your life and career.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/02/2025
NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
HAPPENING NOW
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/02/2025
I still remember way back before Musk was illegally destroying US foreign aid that time when he claimed he’d give $6B to the UK WFP if they could tell him how it would solve world hunger & then he ignored the response & gave $5.7B to his own charity & no one ever found out where it went from there
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I will give either a limb, or my undying gratitude,* to the first news site that publishes a story detailing the extent to which the DOGE actions are illegal or improper, exactly which laws are applicable, and what legal action would be feasible to reverse these moves. (*I get to choose which)
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If citizens would like to peaceably protest outside US AID today.
Address for the Agency of International development:

1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW 
Washington, DC 20004Address for the Agency of International development:

1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW 
Washington, DC 20004
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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@missmouse.bsky.social seriously at this point you’re a goddamn journalistic hero. How do we have NO media there! It’s INSANE how grassroots the response to this shit has had to be. WTAF?! There is a call for protests at OPM Tuesday Feb 4th at 4pm by Indivisible
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Captain Sarahbee @captainsarahbee.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@nytimes.com @msnbc.com we’ve been asking y’all to get over to OPM all afternoon and evening Why are we only learning about all of this from some really great people documenting it for bsky? I knew senators took the weekend off but I didn’t know journalists all did, too 🤷‍♀️
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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 03/02/2025
Luke Farritor (one of the cohorts in the Musk takeover, destroying the govt from the inside out) has now hidden his personal site but you can still view it here: web.archive.org/web/20241224...
web.archive.org
Luke Farritor
Luke Farritor's personal website.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk has now been replying to Balázs Orbán about USAID funding opposition news in Hungary. Like I posted this weekend, Peter Marocco seems to have been radicalized against USAid by Orban-linked Hungarian visits, conferences, etc back to 2019. www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/cur...
hungarianconservative.com
Elon Musk Sides with Balázs Orbán on Previous US Funding of Hungarian ‘Independent’ Media
Elon Musk reacted to reports that Hungarian opposition media outlets were outraged over Trump’s decision to halt US foreign assistance.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Chuck doesn’t care about the rest of America. Just hook up farmers in Iowa who desperately need Canadian potash. The rest of you can fuck off.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump has no idea whatsoever what Musk is actually doing even though he also signed the executive order giving DOGE “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems."
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Guess what? We’re still here. 😂 People are asking what they can do: 1) Keep calling your electeds! 2) If you’re local to DC, come protest at OPM & the Old Executive Bldg, where word has it Musk works out of. (haven’t confirmed that) Just stay on public sidewalks and be kind to federal employees.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
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