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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 6h

A few months into Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 7h

The Trump administration plans to use private debt collectors to go after millions of student borrowers in default on their federal loans, Officials are reportedly pushing for the effort to begin AFTER the midterm elections — as they grapple with the fact that many Trump supporters are likely to […]

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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

"Most Americans don’t want to think about it, but in the background of these developments is this: **Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution defines treason against the US as 'levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.' By any objective measure […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 15h

"Bikes 'not for jousting,' says Lime after duel video" Gotta say that is a headline I did not expect to read... Cycle jousting seems like an entirely sensible sport in the grand scheme of things... www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9zrdpg72…

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Our bikes are 'not for jousting,' says Lime after Hackney duel

Footage emerged on social media of hundreds of people gathered in east London to watch a bike joust.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

IN TEXAS Republicans are literally suing to block ads tying them to Trump.

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Observing the plump Donald Trump We all see that lump on his rump With much speculation The best explanation: Most likely a sump for his dump

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I think people need to make this comparison RIGHT NOW. Is Elon paying $300M to elect right wingers bc otherwise they'll denaturalize and deport him? Probably not, but if their voters learn he is, it might make the $$ creepy. [Tho I think people need to focus on the child porn Grok makes]

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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#Trump seeks to strip Congressional Rep for #Minnesota Ilhan Omar of her US Citizenship “Agents took Omar’s passport, mobile phone, personal computers and notebooks, according to people familiar with the search, the newspaper said. Omar arrived in the US in 1995 after living in a refugee camp […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

U.S. Voters: Vote early and in person. If you're in a "vote by mail" state and can deliver your mail-in vote directly rather than relying on USPS this year, do it. Democracy Docket has mapped all the places the USPS has slowed mail pickup and delivery […]

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Mark Mullen @mmm.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, probably the person most responsible for putting a man on the #moon has died at 90. #legend

Margaret Hamilton next to a giant stack of computer code on paper.

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

A sordid history of corrupt Texas politics and the creation of the modern religious right. Historians Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s article in The Guardian, “Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal,” going deep into the origins of the […]

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“If you’re evil, you’re at least competent. And if you’re evil, you’re not bad. And therefore maybe you’re actually kind of good because you’re at least getting something done.” —Peter Thiel, 9/23/26 How Peter Thiel became the Devil himself […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

An eyewitness has described how two federal immigration agents allegedly beat and badly injured a US citizen in a botched arrest attempt in Illinois, and left the man dazed and bleeding on the ground as they walked away after realizing their apparent mistake. Bystander Ryan Garton told the […]

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Interview with Ashley St. Clair, who has a child with Elon Musk, who left the cult and turned down a 40 million dollar NDA to preserve her ability to speak out about what she knows. youtu.be/l6rlrpRPChY

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Christopher Nolan: Why Knowledge Can Be Dangerous | A STARMUS Exclusive youtu.be/h9123XybN_Q

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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A delusion of grandeur is a false belief that you have exceptional power, fame, or divine status, or that you are a famous military or historical figure, which persists despite clear proof to the contrary. Causes: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Substance Use, Dementia.

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Trump & Epstein: Biz partners. @mugsysrapsheet.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

If you're a #Democrat running for office, you need to take this to heart: (From an American visiting Berlin.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ebK0l7qT8

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess, a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent. But boy, we didn’t know the half of it. Now, thanks to those defendants prying loose some discovery from the […]

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Tom Lyon ✅ @aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Behold the #SunMicrosystems SunLink Communications Processor - released in 1985. This one sits on a VME-Multibus adapter. It was a Multibus card OEM'd from Systech of San Diego (they still exist!). I used their VRTX RTOS just as a boot loader and wrote my own code for the board. 1/6

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

"I think that there's no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we've got. "We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that's growing. "It's growing daily. It's compounding, it grows geometrically now because it compounds itself." -- John Dean, March 21, 1973

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@emptywheel.bsky.social It is easy to explain why Old Air Force One was preferable to the Flying Bribery Palace to use as Trump's decoy aircraft: Trump would prefer that the risk of being shot down be borne by the old Air Force One rather than by his precious Qatari emolument, which he expects […]

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr Melting glaciers have changed the axis of rotation of the gyroscope that is the earth. Presumably that induces internal stresses.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

In a win for voters, a federal judge blocked Trump’s recent ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized citizens register to vote. The court found the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens […]

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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

#uspol Here’s a fucking truth bomb for your ass… The reality is the fascists have *unlimited funds*. The FCC chair is firmly on the side of chilling speech that doesn’t align with Trump’s agenda. They will buy up *all* ad space up to the election. Do not expect the courts to do anything. They […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far, Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, that he US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” “They are murder victims,” the […]

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

@aka_pugs @thevoid What is called the spirit of the Void is where there is nothing. In the Void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness. -- Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@lauren Ridgecrest, California: 8:30 PM, dark, 100F (38C)

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Ridgecrest Protest @ridgecrest-50501.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🧵1/ The DeFlock Committee had a very productive meeting with the Ridgecrest Chief of Police yesterday. We are now proven to the City Council that we're not going to give up talking about the issues, and we're not going to sit down and shut up.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fullywoolly/117013… I didn't get interviewed for this article, but at least they briefly mentioned one of the two recent Saskatchewan debris falls, and used it to introduce this quote which is going to keep me awake for a few nights: "The company [SpaceX] […]

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Grassroots Joe @joeinwynnewood.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

He's going to, you know they're seizing ballots in Fulton County. They're going to come out like the Sixth Sense and say we see dead people on the rolls. You're going to see Nicholas Maduro cop some plea saying Venezuela interfered. You're going to see releasing of Tulsi Gabbard conspiracy […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months […]

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

America’s Scientists Are Disappearing -- Neil deGrasse Tyson youtu.be/dYiUI6y1nKg

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Flipboard Tech Desk @techdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Madison Square Garden is suing @WIRED over stories relating to surveillance at the venue. Wired stands by its reporting and has lifted the paywall on two of the stories so you can read them for yourself. Here they are: flip.it/CmOGtT flip.it/2n8E4_ #Technology […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Multiple current and former DHS officials told the Guardian that they had witnessed or personally been subjected to polygraph examinations – not as part of routine security reviews, but as a tool of intimidation. The Guardian spoke with several former and current officials who independently […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would capture not only the license plate of passing vehicles, but also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, -- potentially letting […]

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Weasel @weaselx86.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

History Professor Answers: Is American Democracy Going to Die? Signs: Electoral Manipulation Weaponized Government Press Intimidation Normalization of Extremism Transfer-of-Power Crisis youtu.be/XVEMBw2jT9o

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David J. Atkinson @meltedcheese.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

@mattblaze @SRDas @SteveBellovin As a program officer making scientific grants, I was acutely aware of the grad student funding dilemma. Whenever possible, on a site visit for example, I took time to meet with grad students. They are often doing a great deal of the work, have lots of ideas, and […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Again: section 224 is integrating 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 militaries, and not enough people seem aware of it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

HASAN: “Thank you, Fox News.” Hasan Piker thanks Fox for unwittingly doing an ad for DSA as they try to scare people🙃

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

fucking springer www.science.org/content/article/why… their plagiarism bot decided Max Planck was self-plagiarising and retracted hundred year old papers

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