Alicia Romano
@aliciaromano.bsky.social
As a child of the 80s I was promised a much better soundtrack for the end of the world.
Alexandria VA, she/her
Alexandria VA, she/her
Have not seen a SINGLE “but his emails” comment. You’re really slipping, people.
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Have not seen a SINGLE “but his emails” comment. You’re really slipping, people.
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Yeah, this was set to "Hide" in my settings. Fuck right off with that.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yeah, this was set to "Hide" in my settings. Fuck right off with that.
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How'd he get down from the roof?
“if it’s this wooded path you wish to see, then you must answer my riddles three”
August 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How'd he get down from the roof?
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all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat
June 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat
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Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority.
And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.
This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"
And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.
This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"
June 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority.
And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.
This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"
And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.
This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"
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can ppl stop screaming about WW3 the thing about world wars is to start one you need countries to go to war that have friends who also want to go to war for their buddy, not 2 countries led by guys whose own wives refuse to talk to them
June 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
can ppl stop screaming about WW3 the thing about world wars is to start one you need countries to go to war that have friends who also want to go to war for their buddy, not 2 countries led by guys whose own wives refuse to talk to them
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This is so good
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
dogetrack.info
May 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is so good
I knew what was going to happen on the Last of Us but I didn’t expect her to be so goddamn ANNOYING
April 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I knew what was going to happen on the Last of Us but I didn’t expect her to be so goddamn ANNOYING
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so they're mycoblogging
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
so they're mycoblogging
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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
April 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
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Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social gets it right once again.
April 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social gets it right once again.
So who’s going to explain to trump what ended up happening to the boy who cried wolf
April 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So who’s going to explain to trump what ended up happening to the boy who cried wolf
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israel is committing genocide against palestine and the foundation of the united states is being torn apart to punish the people who think this is bad.
March 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
israel is committing genocide against palestine and the foundation of the united states is being torn apart to punish the people who think this is bad.
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oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people:
SHARE WIDELY
these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:
SHARE WIDELY
these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:
If voicemails are full, you can also email these staffers in Schumer's office:
mike_lynch [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov
meghan_taira [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov
mike_lynch [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov
meghan_taira [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov
March 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people:
SHARE WIDELY
these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:
SHARE WIDELY
these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:
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Shit. I figured it out. It's a headline, not a motto.
March 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Shit. I figured it out. It's a headline, not a motto.
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when people try to parse eg a Nazi salute with “he was referring to / ironic reference” nonsense think of sex. let’s say you and I fuck, but my engagement is ironic — I’m doing it because I’m making reference to a previous discussion about fucking. are you less fucked now? me neither
February 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
when people try to parse eg a Nazi salute with “he was referring to / ironic reference” nonsense think of sex. let’s say you and I fuck, but my engagement is ironic — I’m doing it because I’m making reference to a previous discussion about fucking. are you less fucked now? me neither
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JFC! We’ve got a teenager with full access to the State Department’s data—one who joked about wiping servers after getting fired for leaking a security firm’s info to a competitor.
What could go possibly wrong—except permanent damage to our top national secrets and the trust of our allies.
What could go possibly wrong—except permanent damage to our top national secrets and the trust of our allies.
February 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
JFC! We’ve got a teenager with full access to the State Department’s data—one who joked about wiping servers after getting fired for leaking a security firm’s info to a competitor.
What could go possibly wrong—except permanent damage to our top national secrets and the trust of our allies.
What could go possibly wrong—except permanent damage to our top national secrets and the trust of our allies.
For anyone still thinking that any of Musk’s douchebro daycare are at least intelligent, I’ve heard a few reputable sources say they tried to brute force their way into World Bank HQ and didn’t believe that it wasn’t run by the U.S.
February 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
For anyone still thinking that any of Musk’s douchebro daycare are at least intelligent, I’ve heard a few reputable sources say they tried to brute force their way into World Bank HQ and didn’t believe that it wasn’t run by the U.S.
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I don't this story has registered with enough people. OPM is trying to make it possible for Musk to control the IT of every federal agency and department. I assume that would give him access--backdoor access?--to...everything.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump White House moves to allow for a Musk takeover of government IT
The Office of Personnel Management is trying to make it easier to put ideologues and cronies in key tech roles.
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I don't this story has registered with enough people. OPM is trying to make it possible for Musk to control the IT of every federal agency and department. I assume that would give him access--backdoor access?--to...everything.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
![February 4, 2025
Edward R. Martin, Jr.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Patrick Henry Building
601 D Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20530
Transmitted via email
Re: Threats to prosecute critics of DOGE
Dear Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Edward R. Martin, Jr.:
We write to raise serious concerns about your recent public statements threatening to prosecute those who
"target" or "impede" Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Executive Office of the President. We request that you publicly commit to abide by the First Amendment, which your office is sworn to uphold and Musk himself claims to champion, in any DOGE-related investigations or prosecutions you may pursue.
On Monday, you tweeted a letter to Musk asking him to use the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to protect DOGE staff and their work and directing him to refer "any questionable conduct or details that [Musk] find[s] or notice[s]" to your office.' In the letter, you assert that "actions in any way that impact [DOGE's] work may break numerous laws," and that you commit to the pursuit of
"all legal action against anyone who impedes [Musk's) work or threatens [Musk's] people." You also state that you will "protect DOGE and other workers no matter what," citing past protests in Washington, D.C., which you refer to as riots.
As you know, DOGE, or the United States DOGE Service as it is formally known, is a government entity established within the Executive Office of the President; by executive order, DOGE is supposed to access only "unclassified agency records." The day before your letter, WIRED reported about and named six young engineers working for DOGE — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. The experience and qualifications of public employees is of significant public interest.
Following this news report, a user on X — the social media platform owned by Mr. Musk — made a post also naming th…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreibo4srxmqoq44eo4bp5wyc26moq2mvevrpvyul5eibwjeh6l6acia@jpeg)
![X has since suspended the account of the user who posted the names.
As an experienced attorney holding such an important public position, you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment protects the right to publish newsworthy information that the publisher lawfully obtains, including names far more sensitive than those of government personnel.' Musk himself has publicly touted DOGE's engineers while citing "media reports" regarding them.
Nor is it a crime to harshly criticize government employees and officials, even if transparency and criticism "impede" their work? Moreover, while certain true threats are unprotected and may be criminally punished, they are limited to serious expression[s]' conveying that a speaker means to
'commit an act of unlawful violence."$ Hyperbolic speech, even using threatening language, is entitled to full First Amendment protection.'
You must also surely be aware that the First Amendment protects Americans' right to peaceably assemble, especially to protest government actions.' The First Amendment severely constrains the government's ability to limit protests in public forums, such as the public streets of Washington, D.C." The government also cannot ban or restrict future protests based on unlawful conduct alleged to have occurred at past protests. 2
Threatening to prosecute First Amendment speech and activity is not only at odds with the U.S.
Constitution, it is also entirely inconsistent with Musk's own stated principles and the right of the American people to know what the government is up to. Musk describes himself as a free speech absolutist and has proposed a massive declassification of government records, opining that all government records should be public by default. '3 Just three months ago, Musk publicly posted…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreigtzd6v5yrwc6ikbo6jmt77r4yc5oikqeop4g3a6qswpxbhjtzxuq@jpeg)
![government employees with whom he disagrees on X.' If it is Musk's intention for the U.S. Attorney's Office to censor the press and public from identifying and discussing those conducting DOGE's work on his behalf, that would be incredibly hypocritical.
It is also vital that the U.S. Attorney's Office maintain the highest ethical standards and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Rule 3.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for the Washington, D.C. Bar, of which you are a member, states: "A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous."Is Under Rule 3.8, prosecutors are additionally prohibited from filing in court or maintaining a charge "that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause."l6 The same rule provides that "[i]n exercising discretion to investigate or to prosecute," prosecutors shall not "improperly favor or invidiously discriminate against any person."17
Threatening to file frivolous charges against Americans and vaguely insinuating that wide swaths of constitutionally-protected speech and activity could invite criminal investigations and prosecutions may already violate these and other rules of professional conduct. Actually doing so almost certainly would.
Additionally, publicly offering the Office of the U.S. Attorney's services to Musk in the context of his asserting that protected expression is a criminal act is unbecoming of your public office and your duties as a public servant. Your oath is to the U.S. Constitution - including the First Amendment - not to President Donald Trump, Musk, or DOGE's desire to operate in secrecy and without criticism.
We request that you immediately (a) identify the specific "targeting" of DOGE staff your letter to Musk was referring to and what specific laws you contend it violated, (b) publicly commit to not investigate or prosecute journalists or others for reporting on or publish…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreihjaig2236xfdb6rhe5u5644xzvjc5p2lva7fkj6rc3z3sthfswbi@jpeg)
February 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
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Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
BREAKING: Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems
Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems
The agreement came in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of committing an "unlawful action" by giving private info to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Trump caves when we react
Read this wrong, saw “House Incel Committee,” and all I thought was shit, that happened even faster than I’d thought
Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Read this wrong, saw “House Incel Committee,” and all I thought was shit, that happened even faster than I’d thought
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