Graf Zeppelin
@granitehull.bsky.social
Library haunter (public service / private passion); against fascists & other pimps of false realities; love lit, film, music, art - from classy to junk, depending. Also into history, politics, & foreign languages. Praying for the scouring of the Shire.
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9/ WTF?! 27 states have already agreed to use the SAVE system—which links to an SSA database mishandled by DOGE— to purge their voter rolls. (So the security of the 2026 election will be compromised even if the Save Anerica Act doesn’t pass.) www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/s...)
February 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
9/ WTF?! 27 states have already agreed to use the SAVE system—which links to an SSA database mishandled by DOGE— to purge their voter rolls. (So the security of the 2026 election will be compromised even if the Save Anerica Act doesn’t pass.) www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/s...)
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2/ Grok’s full answer to question 2.
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 AM
2/ Grok’s full answer to question 2.
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Yeah, this went quickly from happening to me seeing it to “I should write about this” to me being unable to do anything else until I got this out.
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Yeah, this went quickly from happening to me seeing it to “I should write about this” to me being unable to do anything else until I got this out.
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
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Even Grok acknowledges that the so-called “Save America Act” (backed by Trump & Musk) may undermine the security of our elections by creating a Single Point of Attack for voter roll maintenance via the Save Program, which links to an SSA database mishandled by DOGE. #NoOnSave #ProtectOurVotes 1/
February 16, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Even Grok acknowledges that the so-called “Save America Act” (backed by Trump & Musk) may undermine the security of our elections by creating a Single Point of Attack for voter roll maintenance via the Save Program, which links to an SSA database mishandled by DOGE. #NoOnSave #ProtectOurVotes 1/
Because they're targeting the worst of the worst, you see...
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Because they're targeting the worst of the worst, you see...
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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So a true story: the moving company is charging us a “library surcharge” because we have “too many books,” which frankly I find both credentialing and insulting.
February 15, 2026 at 9:06 PM
So a true story: the moving company is charging us a “library surcharge” because we have “too many books,” which frankly I find both credentialing and insulting.
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Wait what? Michael Flynn’s brother, Charles Flynn, is a Senior Advisor at Peter Thiel’s Palantir?? h/t @nadja72638243.bsky.social on X… 1/
February 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Wait what? Michael Flynn’s brother, Charles Flynn, is a Senior Advisor at Peter Thiel’s Palantir?? h/t @nadja72638243.bsky.social on X… 1/
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Remember this? I was repeatedly told he's not like his brother and there was no smoke there when I kept bringing this up. Welp!
Army now acknowledges the brother of Michael Flynn was a part of Army response to Capitol riot | CNN Politics
The Army is now acknowledging that Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the brother of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, was in the room for one of the key January 6 phone ca...
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February 15, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Remember this? I was repeatedly told he's not like his brother and there was no smoke there when I kept bringing this up. Welp!
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All right, I got mad enough to write a full post about all this:
Diversity Is Our Strength
This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns
There's ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
February 15, 2026 at 8:33 PM
All right, I got mad enough to write a full post about all this:
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Do former DOGE employees have the type of access to SSA’s database that wld allow them to make changes? I ask bc there seems to be no transparency, & Trump & Musk now want states to purge voters from the rolls by using the “SAVE” system to compare data in the rolls to the data in SSA’s database. 1/
For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.
February 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Do former DOGE employees have the type of access to SSA’s database that wld allow them to make changes? I ask bc there seems to be no transparency, & Trump & Musk now want states to purge voters from the rolls by using the “SAVE” system to compare data in the rolls to the data in SSA’s database. 1/
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It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
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The Epstein stuff is just the most obvious manifestation of the rot. It runs throughout our system now.
Any 2028 presidential hopeful who doesn't have a plan to address this maldistribution of wealth and power doesn't deserve a second of anyone's time or attention.
Any 2028 presidential hopeful who doesn't have a plan to address this maldistribution of wealth and power doesn't deserve a second of anyone's time or attention.
February 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The Epstein stuff is just the most obvious manifestation of the rot. It runs throughout our system now.
Any 2028 presidential hopeful who doesn't have a plan to address this maldistribution of wealth and power doesn't deserve a second of anyone's time or attention.
Any 2028 presidential hopeful who doesn't have a plan to address this maldistribution of wealth and power doesn't deserve a second of anyone's time or attention.
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Seriously, this hyper concentration of wealth is one of the top problems facing the country -- the maldistribution is worse than it was before the Great Depression, and their political influence is even greater than it was then thanks to Citizens United etc.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Seriously, this hyper concentration of wealth is one of the top problems facing the country -- the maldistribution is worse than it was before the Great Depression, and their political influence is even greater than it was then thanks to Citizens United etc.
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Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain.
But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.
But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain.
But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.
But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.
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We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
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... Real trials of charges against Bondi and Noem and Vance and Trump. With real evidence and witnesses.
Make clear to that jury of 100 that the world will forever remember their votes and whether they were faithful to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.
Make clear to that jury of 100 that the world will forever remember their votes and whether they were faithful to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.
February 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
... Real trials of charges against Bondi and Noem and Vance and Trump. With real evidence and witnesses.
Make clear to that jury of 100 that the world will forever remember their votes and whether they were faithful to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.
Make clear to that jury of 100 that the world will forever remember their votes and whether they were faithful to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.
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I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate.
And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials.
As the Constitution requires.
Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...
And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials.
As the Constitution requires.
Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...
February 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate.
And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials.
As the Constitution requires.
Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...
And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials.
As the Constitution requires.
Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...
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Musk, meanwhile, is literally parroting Nazi propaganda about how multicultural, multiracial nations would be easy to beat.
February 15, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Musk, meanwhile, is literally parroting Nazi propaganda about how multicultural, multiracial nations would be easy to beat.
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Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact
February 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact
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Given DOGE’s f#ckery at SSA, I am not thrilled that the “SAVE America Act” aims to compel states to purge voters via SSA’s Number Verification system & DHS’s SAVE program, which accesses the SSA system. I wish some election security experts would look at this & talk me down.
For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.
February 15, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Given DOGE’s f#ckery at SSA, I am not thrilled that the “SAVE America Act” aims to compel states to purge voters via SSA’s Number Verification system & DHS’s SAVE program, which accesses the SSA system. I wish some election security experts would look at this & talk me down.
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was looking for something else and found this important post deep in my files
February 15, 2026 at 5:09 AM
was looking for something else and found this important post deep in my files
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This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
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February 15, 2026 at 1:53 AM
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
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February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.