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Hex
@rockislandtime.bsky.social
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WI mom and voter

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia: From 1730, to 1740; and from 1768, to 1772”, p.140
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sifill.bsky.social
This is great.
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.
www.theverge.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear. The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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mcuban.bsky.social
The Revolution will be AI-icized
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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abortionfront.bsky.social
IT'S A WIN! The Supreme Court just REFUSED to take up a challenge to buffer zone laws that protect patients from harassment by anti-abortion genital goons outside clinics. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
February 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
ICYMI — Trump’s budget guy Russ Vought, who now runs the CFPB that is supposed to protect consumers, got community noted for pushing lies about a company the CFPB went after for deceiving borrowers.

These guys are not on your side.

The scammers are now running the hen house.
February 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
"Patrimonial regimes couldn’t compete militarily or economically with states led by expert bureaucracies."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Yet when Max Weber saw patrimonialism as obsolete in the era of the modern state, he was not daydreaming. As Hanson and Kopstein note, “Patrimonial regimes couldn’t compete militarily or economically with states led by expert bureaucracies.” They still can’t. Patrimonialism suffers from two inherent and in many cases fatal shortcomings. The first is incompetence. “The arbitrary whims of the ruler and his personal coterie continually interfere with the regular functioning of state agencies,” write Hanson and Kopstein. Patrimonial regimes are “simply awful at managing any complex problem of modern governance,” they write. “At best they supply poorly functioning institutions, and at worst they actively prey on the economy.” Already, the administration seems bent on debilitating as much of the government as it can. Some examples of incompetence, such as the reported firing of staffers who safeguard nuclear weapons and prevent bird flu, would be laughable if they were not so alarming. Eventually, incompetence makes itself evident to the voting public without needing too much help from the opposition. But helping the public understand patrimonialism’s other, even greater vulnerability—corruption—requires relentless messaging.
February 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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abbottalynn.bsky.social
The Gofundme for Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl’s legal fees following her aggressive removal from a public town hall.

Teresa happens to be a dear friend. After speaking with her today, it’s clear this situation has been overwhelming.

She is seeking legal counsel and she needs our help! Please donate!
Donate to Justice for Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl: Fight for the First, organized by Alicia Abbott
On Saturday, February 22nd, citizens gathered at a town hall in K… Alicia Abbott needs your support for Justice for Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl: Fight for the First
www.gofundme.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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dansinker.com
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
We can help shift the tide! Wisconsin must have fair electoral maps going forward.

Answer Musk’s money with a blizzard of small donations. Give Musk the finger and support Judge Susan Crawford for the open WI Supreme Court seat. Our democracy depends on it.

secure.actblue.com/donate/hrccr...
February 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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jamesfloveiv.bsky.social
Breaking:

Glenn Kirschner Target of Bomb Threat at Conservative Convention.

youtu.be/uFhunDschIo
Bomb Threat Made at Principles First Summit; Will FBI & ATF Conduct The Necessary Investigation?
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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February 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.
February 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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spudlovr.bsky.social
ICYMI An Anti-Biden Conspirator Now Acknowledges That Ron Johnson Was “Doing the Bidding” of Russia

www.thenation.com/article/poli... #wipolitics
An Anti-Biden Conspirator Now Acknowledges That Ron Johnson Was “Doing the Bidding” of Russia
In sworn testimony before Congress, a former Trump henchman says the senator from Wisconsin was “our guy in the Senate.”
www.thenation.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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jenniferhlusko.bsky.social
Public Health Agency of Canada buys 500k doses of human vaccine 2 protect against #AvianInfluenza for those most at risk from being exposed to #H5N1 virus by infected animals. 60% will go 2 provinces & territories, while the rest will be stockpiled 4 national preparedness.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
H5N1 avian influenza vaccine purchased for humans at highest risk, PHAC says | CBC News
The Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday it's purchased 500,000 doses of a human vaccine to protect against avian influenza to protect people most at risk from being exposed to the virus by i...
www.cbc.ca
February 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Been thinking a lot lately about how great it would be if only the American literary canon contained a novel about how the American people voted themselves into fascism, with many voters thinking they were just choosing a straight-talking non-politician who could clean up the mess in Washington.
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Nov 28
This is how Lewis describes the fascist President-to-be. He "was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture."
Doremus Jessup, so inconspicuous an observer, watching Senator Windrip from so humble a Boeotia, could not explain his power of bewitching large audiences. The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public lar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.
February 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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rooster.info
Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.
February 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
February 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
rockislandtime.bsky.social
From last year but very important
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Trump has repeatedly outlined plans to militarize law enforcement - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
According to a CREW analysis of over 13,000 of Trump’s Truth Social posts, Trump has vowed at least 19 times to weaponize law enforcement against civilians.
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February 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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sandibachom.bsky.social
@schiff.senate.gov 🔥🔥🔥KashPatel lied to you today. In DC two people who can deploy the National Guard since the 1800s. POTUS and the secretary of defense. Patel was the chief of staff Chris Miller and DENIED the National Guard 14 times. I was there. MY VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3P...
Timeline: The National Guard Was Requested (And Denied) 14 Times At The Capitol Riots 1/6/21
YouTube video by Sandi Bachom
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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kidriles.bsky.social
Today is January 31st, 2025.

Fuck Ron Johnson 🖕
January 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a halt to Donald Trump's sweeping aid freeze, issuing a "brief administrative stay" to preserve the status quo for at least a few days while further litigation plays out.
January 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Just so it's clear, I think Andreessen's AI argument is just a pretext. They want to crash the economy and will use different explanations for why it needs to happen depending on the audience.

I think everything I wrote a decade ago about predictions for a "leisure society" still holds true today:
The Late Great American Promise of Less Work — Paleofuture
Some French companies just  banned  employees from responding to work emails after work hours. A city in Sweden is trying out a  30-hour  work week in earnest. But while the prospe...
paleofuture.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
The plan is to crash the economy to suppress wages.
Marc Andreessen @pmarca A world in which human wages crash from Al --logically, necessarily -- is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero. Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need and want for pennies.
January 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
rockislandtime.bsky.social
Good.
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Canada, Mexico steelmakers refuse new U.S. orders
Some steelmakers in Canada and Mexico are refusing new orders to the US on concerns that Donald Trump soon will reimpose duties. Read more.
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January 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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antifaoperative.bsky.social
Oklahoma baptist pastor, James McMillan, has been arrested for a third time for child sex crimes.

McMillan sent nude images of himself to a 14 year old girl in Kansas via Snapchat.
January 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM