AdeG
@adegeofroy.bsky.social
Leading Data/Analytics/Tech in the green tech space | City Councilor | Grassroots activist/NH Dem | Former Army infantry officer | Husband & father of two
Apparently the term TACO has really started to resonate with people and get under Trump's skin. I predict that Democrats, sensing an opportunity to finally fight fire with fire, will promptly ditch it, a la Tim Walz's "weird" label from the election.
June 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Apparently the term TACO has really started to resonate with people and get under Trump's skin. I predict that Democrats, sensing an opportunity to finally fight fire with fire, will promptly ditch it, a la Tim Walz's "weird" label from the election.
Cold calls are bad enough, but a surefire way to ensure I will never consider your product is to cold call me with an AI chatbot agent.
May 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Cold calls are bad enough, but a surefire way to ensure I will never consider your product is to cold call me with an AI chatbot agent.
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As a 20 year communications professional I’d like to offer Democrats my most sophisticated advice: While Trump is punching himself in the nuts, you could choose to 1. Also punch him in the nuts; or 2. Punch yourself in the nuts. I strongly advise number 1.
April 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As a 20 year communications professional I’d like to offer Democrats my most sophisticated advice: While Trump is punching himself in the nuts, you could choose to 1. Also punch him in the nuts; or 2. Punch yourself in the nuts. I strongly advise number 1.
Everyone knows you're not allowed to suck it in the jerk shack.
March 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Everyone knows you're not allowed to suck it in the jerk shack.
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Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
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My mom always told me that the secret to my academic success was that a ferryboat captain urinated on me as a child.
February 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My mom always told me that the secret to my academic success was that a ferryboat captain urinated on me as a child.
"What does up dog mean?"
-My daughter
-My daughter
February 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"What does up dog mean?"
-My daughter
-My daughter
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Part 2, in which AOC explains that right-wing voters call their Congressional Representatives ALL THE TIME, and Democrats need to match that energy on a consistent basis.
February 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Part 2, in which AOC explains that right-wing voters call their Congressional Representatives ALL THE TIME, and Democrats need to match that energy on a consistent basis.
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Part 3, in which AOC explains that the calls we have been making to members of Congress this week are having an impact on Republicans and Democrats alike.
Don’t let up.
Keep making noise.
Don’t let up.
Keep making noise.
February 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Part 3, in which AOC explains that the calls we have been making to members of Congress this week are having an impact on Republicans and Democrats alike.
Don’t let up.
Keep making noise.
Don’t let up.
Keep making noise.
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Epic by @wired.com
“…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 4:44 AM
Epic by @wired.com
"trust fund fetus"
Can't drive on the highway because Musk's "self driving" cars keep crashing into everything.
Can't take the train, because Musk bribed public officials to build a shitty useless "hyperloop" instead.
Can't fly because Musk put a trust fund fetus in charge of upgrading air traffic control.
Can't take the train, because Musk bribed public officials to build a shitty useless "hyperloop" instead.
Can't fly because Musk put a trust fund fetus in charge of upgrading air traffic control.
February 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"trust fund fetus"
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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They're going to illegally dismantle the Department of Education and strip millions of students of student loans, funding for students with disabilities, etc.
They want to destroy public education.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
They want to destroy public education.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data
Closing the agency would require congressional approval, so the new administration hopes to diminish it in the meantime.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
They're going to illegally dismantle the Department of Education and strip millions of students of student loans, funding for students with disabilities, etc.
They want to destroy public education.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
They want to destroy public education.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
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I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.
February 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.
@shaheen.senate.gov - your phone is going straight to voicemail and nobody is answering your phones. What are you and your colleagues going to do about Elon Musk taking control of the federal government? There is a coup underway and the entire NH congressional delegation is silent.
February 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@shaheen.senate.gov - your phone is going straight to voicemail and nobody is answering your phones. What are you and your colleagues going to do about Elon Musk taking control of the federal government? There is a coup underway and the entire NH congressional delegation is silent.
@senatorhassan1.bsky.social - your voicemail box is full and nobody is answering your phones. What are you and your colleagues going to do about Elon Musk taking control of the federal government? There is a coup underway and the entire NH congressional delegation is silent.
February 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
@senatorhassan1.bsky.social - your voicemail box is full and nobody is answering your phones. What are you and your colleagues going to do about Elon Musk taking control of the federal government? There is a coup underway and the entire NH congressional delegation is silent.
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What percent of MAGA (including the children working with Elon) do you think know that US Aid is spent on AMERICAN PRODUCTS? Except Israel has a 75 percent waiver, and they spared that aid
February 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What percent of MAGA (including the children working with Elon) do you think know that US Aid is spent on AMERICAN PRODUCTS? Except Israel has a 75 percent waiver, and they spared that aid
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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February 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM