Josh Carlson
@magneticstain.bsky.social
Security Engineer based in Western Massachusetts.
Enjoys programming, information security, sports, food, and everything in between.
Enjoys programming, information security, sports, food, and everything in between.
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First mayoral forum on the books
Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?"
Mayor Wu: Ward 18
Domingos DaRosa: 18
Josh Kraft: I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know
Alex Alex also didn't know
Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3
Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?"
Mayor Wu: Ward 18
Domingos DaRosa: 18
Josh Kraft: I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know
Alex Alex also didn't know
Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3
May 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
First mayoral forum on the books
Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?"
Mayor Wu: Ward 18
Domingos DaRosa: 18
Josh Kraft: I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know
Alex Alex also didn't know
Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3
Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?"
Mayor Wu: Ward 18
Domingos DaRosa: 18
Josh Kraft: I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know
Alex Alex also didn't know
Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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60 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston to protest racial inequities.
Today, we march his path in hope and action.
@embracebos.bsky.social
Today, we march his path in hope and action.
@embracebos.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
60 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston to protest racial inequities.
Today, we march his path in hope and action.
@embracebos.bsky.social
Today, we march his path in hope and action.
@embracebos.bsky.social
I commend him. It's not always easy giving up your job and disrupting your family for what you believe in.
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apnews.com/article/60-m...
The top producer at '60 Minutes' has quit. He says he can no longer run the show as he always has
The top producer at CBS News' “60 Minutes" has quit during a dispute between his show and the Trump administration.
apnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I commend him. It's not always easy giving up your job and disrupting your family for what you believe in.
apnews.com/article/60-m...
apnews.com/article/60-m...
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ASAN, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc, and others stand united: Autistic people deserve respect, support, and science-based policy, not dangerous disinformation. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...
Leading Autism Organizations Release Joint Statement on Upholding Scientific Integrity and Supporting the Autism Community - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
April 17, 2025, Washington, D.C. – As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of Autistic individuals, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Society of America, Autism…
autisticadvocacy.org
April 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
ASAN, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc, and others stand united: Autistic people deserve respect, support, and science-based policy, not dangerous disinformation. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...
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“Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics of the term ‘concentration camp’ as they pertain to a place the government is actively sending people with no criminal history is highly associated with national stability,” said historian Kristen Boyd
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theonion.com/histori...
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. “Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics […]
theonion.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics of the term ‘concentration camp’ as they pertain to a place the government is actively sending people with no criminal history is highly associated with national stability,” said historian Kristen Boyd
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Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.
April 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.
Wow, their actions are abhorrent already and they decided to turn it up to 11. Disgusting, as always.
Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Wow, their actions are abhorrent already and they decided to turn it up to 11. Disgusting, as always.
Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
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:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
April 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
The irony of a black man beating Strom Thurmond's record is 🤌
Excellent work Senator Booker.
Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
Excellent work Senator Booker.
Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record
The New Jersey senator, who had spent much of his last 24 hours on the Senate floor assailing the Trump administration, surpassed Senator Strom Thurmond’s speech in 1957.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The irony of a black man beating Strom Thurmond's record is 🤌
Excellent work Senator Booker.
Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
Excellent work Senator Booker.
Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
Man, these people are dumb. Republicans in Congress have to do so many mental gymnastics to justify their viewpoints that they don't even realize what they're saying anymore.
Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.”
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
March 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Man, these people are dumb. Republicans in Congress have to do so many mental gymnastics to justify their viewpoints that they don't even realize what they're saying anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
youtu.be/O8cSEs08r28?...
Seriously though, I really wish Hilary had had a chance at POTUS.
youtu.be/O8cSEs08r28?...
Seriously though, I really wish Hilary had had a chance at POTUS.
Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
youtu.be/O8cSEs08r28?...
Seriously though, I really wish Hilary had had a chance at POTUS.
youtu.be/O8cSEs08r28?...
Seriously though, I really wish Hilary had had a chance at POTUS.
Say it again for the ones in the back Tammy! I wish more Democratic senators were as tenacious.
Not a historian, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a sitting US Senator — or member of Congress, generally — or perhaps any senior US gov’t official — has included an f-bomb in an official press release.
www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...
www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Duckworth: Pete Hegseth Needs to Resign in Disgrace | U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois
www.duckworth.senate.gov
March 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Say it again for the ones in the back Tammy! I wish more Democratic senators were as tenacious.
I understand treading carefully in cases like this, but this is simply unacceptable.
"We don't want to try to remove the bank robbers, just in case it turns into an armed standoff."
That's kind of your job as a LEO.
"We don't want to try to remove the bank robbers, just in case it turns into an armed standoff."
That's kind of your job as a LEO.
This is a US court of law, refusing to bar illegal actions of the Executive branch out of an explicit concern that its agents will react with deadly force.
Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.
March 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I understand treading carefully in cases like this, but this is simply unacceptable.
"We don't want to try to remove the bank robbers, just in case it turns into an armed standoff."
That's kind of your job as a LEO.
"We don't want to try to remove the bank robbers, just in case it turns into an armed standoff."
That's kind of your job as a LEO.
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Just so this is clear, an unelected group of government employees blackmailed a private organization's security firm to help them break into that private organization's headquarters by threatening to terminate their other contracts.
Giving Watergate vibes.
Giving Watergate vibes.
Really key stuff here. DOGE flipped the Institute's security contractors - Inter-Con - against them by threatening to cancel all their security contracts across the federal government.
This is where DOGE's money meets up with guns and the lawyers are kicked to the side.
This is where DOGE's money meets up with guns and the lawyers are kicked to the side.
BREAKING: DOGE Strong-Armed USIP Security Contractors to Switch Sides talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...
March 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Just so this is clear, an unelected group of government employees blackmailed a private organization's security firm to help them break into that private organization's headquarters by threatening to terminate their other contracts.
Giving Watergate vibes.
Giving Watergate vibes.
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random.dog is the thing I needed today, that I didn't know I needed. But I'm willing to bet you need it too.
March 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
random.dog is the thing I needed today, that I didn't know I needed. But I'm willing to bet you need it too.
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"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks.
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks.
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
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SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/federa...
www.wired.com/story/federa...
FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.
www.wired.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/federa...
www.wired.com/story/federa...
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Apparent unemployment fraud 😬
This should be fun...
Who's there?
Apparent unemployment fraud 😬
This should be fun...
March 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Apparent unemployment fraud 😬
This should be fun...
Who's there?
Apparent unemployment fraud 😬
This should be fun...
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
www.wunc.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...