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Whirling Dervish

@whirlingdervish.bsky.social
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Stop the world, I want to get off. Main Interests: Cyber Security, Politics. THE STOCK MARKET IS NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID.

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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Black People Aren’t Hanging Themselves: The reemergence of lynching is a natural consequence of our national rhetoric. Reflections by Jeffrey Kass www.levelman.com/black-people...
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Black People Aren’t Hanging Themselves
The reemergence of lynching is a natural consequence of our national rhetoric.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#BlueWaveIn70Days
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Whirling Dervish @whirlingdervish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Trumps Tariff Taxes" "This is America, richest country in the world, yet Trump Republicans keep telling you that if you can't afford the inflationary Tariff Taxes, you are just not living poor enough". "Republicans tell Americans, they should be living poorer instead of fixing inflation"
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There have been 19 reported black lynchings this year. And if you learn nothing else, know this… BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT HANG THEMSELVES FROM TREES!! EVER! Even suicidal Black people don’t do that because they know it terrorizes the entire community. The Klan endorsed that asshole so it could
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Leaked messages have shown that federal agents complained about being used for a “political stunt” targeting Trump's nemesis.
thedailybeast.com
DHS Agents’ Raging Texts About ‘Stunt’ Targeting Newsom Revealed
Newly released court exhibits reveal federal immigration agents’ quiet fury.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Note the date
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Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple @shehackspurple.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m excited for the next book stream 😊 For Chapter 5 of *Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding*, I’ll be joined by Katie Paxton-Fear to cover technology-specific security practices and what secure coding looks like across different architectures and platforms. RSVP: twp.ai/4htVwK 1/2
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
1/2 🚨 Massie's not going quietly. He, along w/ @rokhanna.bsky.social just introduced H.R. 9694, the Epstein Files Transparency Act II. It gives standing to state AGs, survivors of #Epstein (& his co-conspirators), & members of Congress to challenge the DOJ for violating the EFTA. ⚖️ t2m.co/LUssrzP6
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary—the main proponent of Utah’s massive, controversial data center—had told Fox News that the opponents were “proxies for the Chinese government.” Now he admits he made the whole thing up. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06...
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After accusing Utah critics of being ‘proxies for the Chinese government,’ Kevin O’Leary now says he has no evidence
Kevin O'Leary, the celebrity investor and "Shark Tank" star behind Box Elder County's data center plan, is walking back comments he made about two progressive Utah groups — accusing them of links to t...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
Trump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."
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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Some stories from our local news: - Bike lanes cause drunk drivers to crash into parked cars - Bike lanes make it harder to drive to a pub - Bike lanes took away parking, said standing in front of parked cars next to the BL - Bike lanes are dangerous bc of all the bike traffic, also no one uses them
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Given that Republicans are in charge of the presidency, the House, and the Senate, you can’t with a straight face claim they’ve been discriminated against with voter fraud. They’ve won it all and they’re claiming there is rampant fraud. It’s bullshit.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
NEW: Meta's VP of comms claimed the company's NameTag feature "doesn't exist" in response to recent @wired.com reporting about it. Then Meta's CTO described it in detail on a podcast. Here's my attempt to explain 🫠: wired.com/story/heres-the-truth-about-whether-metas-nametag-face-recognition-exists
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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/07/2026
"The ADL was probably the first of a number of organizations to track the Birchers, and its anti-Birch campaign was ultimately the most effective of them all." How they achieved it is instructive. A fascinating bit of history and strategy:
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Sometimes Stopping Extremism Means Getting Your Hands Dirty
The John Birch Society, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American tradition of infiltrating and exposing radical organizations.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NEW: SFPD exposed its live police drone feeds to the open internet. Color + thermal, 5,000 GPS points over 44 miles + pilots’ names and emails. No authentication. Found by a routine scrape of the manufacturer’s domain.
wired.com
A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
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Julie Taylor @snarkymimi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"I am the increasingly large bullet you dodged," sobs Platner.
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 07/07/2026
The malignancy of private equity.
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Say The Thing Tee @saythethingtee.com · 20/06/2026
It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
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Whirling Dervish @whirlingdervish.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Please explain to MAGA voters that MAGA is in favor of Shiria Law? Its MAGA who say woman should vote, should not work, should be pregnant homemaker, not own property, and listen to their male kin/husbands? The Shiria Law call is coming from within the house www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...
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Muslims at Texas GOP Convention told to leave party, country
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 03/06/2026
Another researcher drops a zero-day without disclosure because they're tired of dealing with MSRC blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token...
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Cop doesn't shoot a white kid who jumped out of a hiding spot behind a car & shoots the cop with a water gun, family, school district and multiple on-air reporters expresses countless thanks to cop for his quick thinking
abc7.com
Police officer nearly shoots student playing with water gun in a senior game
A Michigan officer nearly shot a student playing a "water wars" game, the school district said.
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City of Boston Streets Cabinet @streets.boston.gov · 08/05/2026
Calling all gardeners! You can request compost for your community gardens made from yard waste collected from Boston and other cities and towns around the state. Check out boston.gov/community-compost
A large pile of compost has just been dumped on the ground in a garden. The post has text that reads: 

Free compost delivery for community gardens!
The City of Boston provides finished compost to community gardens. Find out more at boston.gov/community-compost
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 08/05/2026
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

"We ask that
everyone outside of
the car be safe so
that drivers can be
dangerous"

PLEASE
SEE ME

DRIVE FREE
OTHERS
WATCH OUT
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Whirling Dervish @whirlingdervish.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
2028 Fight Night: If Trump actually runs for a third term, then Obama should too.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This should be a bigger story. Nina Burleigh: Timothy C. Parlatore, the lawyer who handled Trump’s classified documents case in Florida, hired Epstein’s lifelong attorney, Darren Indyke, into his firm just days after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago to retrieve classified documents Trump purloined.
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The Plumbers of Epsteingate
White Shoe Lawyers Get Down in the Sewer For Don
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Whirling Dervish @whirlingdervish.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Oh, finally, a "name". How are you so confident that this is the test given to the President? And why ever would you think that passing a "is your brain medically functioning" a good test for the President to brag about passing every 3 months? It is NOT an IQ test. Trump thinks it is.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 19/04/2026
Facts.
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Whirling Dervish @whirlingdervish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It's what comes *next_*after making the generic "every one can agree" statement. Ex: Its a *good point* that Americans should eat healthier! "...therefore, we should punish snack food eaters by parading them through town while we all throw spoiled fruit at them" See, its no longer a good point.
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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A trio of Biden staffers who worked intimately to implement the Inflation Reduction Act have a big post-mortem out today looking at what worked, what didn't, and how to do it better next time, like... - fund implementation! - maybe don't base tax credits on LCA! more: heatmap.news/politics/inf...
heatmap.news
What Went Wrong With Biden’s Big Climate Law
According to more than 70 people who helped implement it.
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
1,550+ MAGA connected to sex crimes against kids. tinyurl.com/yc86m6x4 Mister Trump's spiritual advisor, number 1313, is already out of prison. Half a million rapes in six months. www.npr.org/sections/hea... Thousands of MAGA are getting exactly what they voted for. let's not pretend.
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#RightWingSexualPredators
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
He really does have the entire U.S. government abetting in the #EpsteinCoverup
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world. (www.wired.com/story/he-bui...)
wired.com
He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life
The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world.
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bethbramble.bsky.social @bethbramble.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is not Kristi Noem 2.0. As AG Bondi would have been required to answer questions in congressional testimony. As a private citizen, she can plead the 5th and use attorney client privilege excuses. This is about protecting trump ala Epstein.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The man appears to know exactly what he is talking about.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Happy birthday, Bill!
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
over 1,500 MAGA connected to sex crimes against kids. tinyurl.com/yc86m6x4 Half a million rapes in six months. www.npr.org/sections/hea... The most famously litigious man in history will sue anybody for anything except for saying he raped children. And they're suing hospitals
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#RightWingSexualPredators
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Key Trump statements on escalation/deescalation of the Iran War are always tied to sudden massive trades booked by persons unknown who seem to know exactly what Trump will do
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Getting some Qs on this—why are we canceling it & why no explanation? Both not true. I’ve done a few long interviews on streets vision lately that got cut down to a quote on “consensus” not reflecting full convo. Didn’t get to interview here, but we did send a statement that wasn’t shared in full…
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@DemocracyHere @democracyhere.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
😡😡😡
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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Caption: Crew, it’s time for a sit-down to organize and exercise our rights. This Saturday. No Kings. Find a No Kings near you at NoKings.org. We can’t sit this one out. @rayzzo.bsky.social @1acommittee.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
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Stevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Reminder that there are tools for blocking/removing generative AI: - Windows: github.com/zoicware/Rem... - AI widgets on websites (self-plug): github.com/Stevoisiak/S... - Web browsers: justthebrowser.com - YouTube Music: github.com/cevvalkoala/... - Spotify: github.com/CennoxX/spot...
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GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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