Silnocus
@silnocus.com
navy vet that works in finance infosec
hobbies include landscape and wildlife photography, spreadsheets masquerading as video games, and trying to act calm about my government spiraling into fascism
hobbies include landscape and wildlife photography, spreadsheets masquerading as video games, and trying to act calm about my government spiraling into fascism
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I would like you to, once again, observe how U.S. journalists are pathologically compelled to pretend we have a working regulatory accountability system that hasn't been completely hijacked by rampant corruption and corporate power
Reuters:
Reuters:
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I would like you to, once again, observe how U.S. journalists are pathologically compelled to pretend we have a working regulatory accountability system that hasn't been completely hijacked by rampant corruption and corporate power
Reuters:
Reuters:
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FIRE is suing on behalf of Monica Meeks, a veteran and Tennessee state employee who was fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk on Facebook following his murder. Argues that "her termination was unlawful retaliation for her protected expression" and demands reinstatement.
www.thefire.org/research-lea...
www.thefire.org/research-lea...
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
FIRE is suing on behalf of Monica Meeks, a veteran and Tennessee state employee who was fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk on Facebook following his murder. Argues that "her termination was unlawful retaliation for her protected expression" and demands reinstatement.
www.thefire.org/research-lea...
www.thefire.org/research-lea...
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For decades, we've been fed the same lie: homelessness is the fault of the homeless. And that lie is what lets pundits and politicians openly push for camps, crackdowns, and even killing unhoused people, instead of facing the reality of why millions can't afford a home.
I spoke with Second Thought:
I spoke with Second Thought:
The Homelessness Crisis
YouTube video by Second Thought
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For decades, we've been fed the same lie: homelessness is the fault of the homeless. And that lie is what lets pundits and politicians openly push for camps, crackdowns, and even killing unhoused people, instead of facing the reality of why millions can't afford a home.
I spoke with Second Thought:
I spoke with Second Thought:
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Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens, who is running for an open Senate seat in Michigan, formally introduces articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., though they have virtually zero chance of advancing through the Republican-controlled House.
House Democrat files impeachment articles against RFK Jr.
The impeachment push by Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., is almost certain to be blocked in the GOP-controlled House.
nbcnews.to
December 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens, who is running for an open Senate seat in Michigan, formally introduces articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., though they have virtually zero chance of advancing through the Republican-controlled House.
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
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This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
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If you live in Maryland and you want to contact Bill Ferguson, his number is 410-841-3600 or 800-492-7122. You can email him at bill.ferguson@senate.maryland.gov.
Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act:
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If you live in Maryland and you want to contact Bill Ferguson, his number is 410-841-3600 or 800-492-7122. You can email him at bill.ferguson@senate.maryland.gov.
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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NEW: Federal prosecutors call CBP officer Luis Uribe "a serial rapist who turned his position as a United States Customs and Border Protection officer into a license to commit or attempt to commit gunpoint sexual assaults."
Full detention memo here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/70/3d/594fc7...
Full detention memo here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/70/3d/594fc7...
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
NEW: Federal prosecutors call CBP officer Luis Uribe "a serial rapist who turned his position as a United States Customs and Border Protection officer into a license to commit or attempt to commit gunpoint sexual assaults."
Full detention memo here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/70/3d/594fc7...
Full detention memo here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/70/3d/594fc7...
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pretty wild seeing just how far right the average conservative has gotten now that they all say that a standard nazi germany era policy is “moderate” in their bubbles
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
pretty wild seeing just how far right the average conservative has gotten now that they all say that a standard nazi germany era policy is “moderate” in their bubbles
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Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them.
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concer...
www.reuters.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them.
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Damn. Prayers to people affected. Heartless to force ppl out of their homes in the dead of winter.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Debra Ann Seaton denied a request by the 7500 South Shore Tenant Union for more time to secure housing.
She also accused the media of spreading misinformation.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
She also accused the media of spreading misinformation.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE
The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.
thetriibe.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Damn. Prayers to people affected. Heartless to force ppl out of their homes in the dead of winter.
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Laying off 70,000 people right before Christmas and refusing to extend healthcare premiums through Obamacare so people don’t DIE but wondering why people are burning candles of Luigi Mangione
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Laying off 70,000 people right before Christmas and refusing to extend healthcare premiums through Obamacare so people don’t DIE but wondering why people are burning candles of Luigi Mangione
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In 1957 nine Black students tried to enter Little Rock Central High after the Supreme Court struck down segregation.
Saturday those same steps became a stage for about two dozen out of state neo Nazi white supremacists.
America under Trump.
Saturday those same steps became a stage for about two dozen out of state neo Nazi white supremacists.
America under Trump.
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
In 1957 nine Black students tried to enter Little Rock Central High after the Supreme Court struck down segregation.
Saturday those same steps became a stage for about two dozen out of state neo Nazi white supremacists.
America under Trump.
Saturday those same steps became a stage for about two dozen out of state neo Nazi white supremacists.
America under Trump.
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"A freshman woman who was unable to join the group said the exclusion sends a worrisome message to conservative women at Harvard."
Another leopards eating faces party voter.
Another leopards eating faces party voter.
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"A freshman woman who was unable to join the group said the exclusion sends a worrisome message to conservative women at Harvard."
Another leopards eating faces party voter.
Another leopards eating faces party voter.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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gwen stefani is apparently stumping for a christofascist indoctrination app founded by jd vance and peter thiel
December 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
gwen stefani is apparently stumping for a christofascist indoctrination app founded by jd vance and peter thiel
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Since drawn wanted posters & even photographic mugshots--police use of biometric info has been a civil liberties nightmare. Misidentification, erosion of the presumption of innocence, and the inability (or unwillingness) of white police to tell people of other races apart. AI only makes it worse.
Police around the country are using AI-powered tools to sort through evidence and perform administrative tasks.
But this police department appears to be one of the first to substitute hand-drawn suspect sketches with AI-generated images.
But this police department appears to be one of the first to substitute hand-drawn suspect sketches with AI-generated images.
Have you seen this (AI-generated) man? Police swap suspect sketches for AI.
Police in a Phoenix suburb appear to be the first department in the nation to use AI for suspect sketches, a practice that raises concerns among some experts.
wapo.st
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Since drawn wanted posters & even photographic mugshots--police use of biometric info has been a civil liberties nightmare. Misidentification, erosion of the presumption of innocence, and the inability (or unwillingness) of white police to tell people of other races apart. AI only makes it worse.
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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Trump and Co. haven’t been dismantling US institutions just this year, they’ve been doing it since 2017.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump and Co. haven’t been dismantling US institutions just this year, they’ve been doing it since 2017.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
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ICE raided Augsburg University in Minnesota and allegedly pointed guns at students.
They didn’t have a warrant to be on private property, and students are shaken and left feeling unsafe.
At least one was detained.
They’re not going after criminals.
They’re grabbing anyone they can.
They didn’t have a warrant to be on private property, and students are shaken and left feeling unsafe.
At least one was detained.
They’re not going after criminals.
They’re grabbing anyone they can.
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
ICE raided Augsburg University in Minnesota and allegedly pointed guns at students.
They didn’t have a warrant to be on private property, and students are shaken and left feeling unsafe.
At least one was detained.
They’re not going after criminals.
They’re grabbing anyone they can.
They didn’t have a warrant to be on private property, and students are shaken and left feeling unsafe.
At least one was detained.
They’re not going after criminals.
They’re grabbing anyone they can.
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All cops
An ICE agent has been arrested for putting a woman in a chokehold and causing “serious physical harm”
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
ICE agent arrested, held on ‘no bond’ order at prosecutor’s request
Samuel Saxon is charged with felonious assault, strangulation and domestic violence.He pleaded not guilty to all counts.
www.cincinnati.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM
All cops
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The point is to use activist students to purge schools of teachers and staff who are not Party supporters. This is all very Soviet.
State leaders push for Turning Point USA chapters at every Texas high school https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/turning-point-usa-texas-high-schools/269-9e074a90-9ca4-442f-9d72-eca1d26c9720
State leaders push for Turning Point USA chapters at every Texas high school
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www.kvue.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The point is to use activist students to purge schools of teachers and staff who are not Party supporters. This is all very Soviet.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?