Alison
@alisonr9.bsky.social
Still getting settled, mostly lurking for political news
Van Hollen should be Senate minority leader.
March 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Van Hollen should be Senate minority leader.
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Full page in today’s Anchorage Daily News:
March 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Full page in today’s Anchorage Daily News:
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They want you to think of us as distant bureaucrats. But you know us as your neighbors—the scientists, veterans, and park rangers keeping your water clean, your health protected, and your lands safe.
We serve you, and we’re fighting to keep it that way.
We serve you, and we’re fighting to keep it that way.
Devastated. Cruel. Surreal. Federal workers share the toll of losing their identity
www.nbcnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
They want you to think of us as distant bureaucrats. But you know us as your neighbors—the scientists, veterans, and park rangers keeping your water clean, your health protected, and your lands safe.
We serve you, and we’re fighting to keep it that way.
We serve you, and we’re fighting to keep it that way.
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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
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Really don’t think we can understate how much troll culture is now political culture
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Really don’t think we can understate how much troll culture is now political culture
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I want to be clear once more that every single vaccine on the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States has already been subjected to a randomized clinical trial. There is no evidence that giving more than one of these vaccines within the time period specified by the schedule poses any risk.
February 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I want to be clear once more that every single vaccine on the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States has already been subjected to a randomized clinical trial. There is no evidence that giving more than one of these vaccines within the time period specified by the schedule poses any risk.
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
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"Wealth is no guarantor of wisdom or virtue. A combination of the rich and the ignorant, John Adams noted, could empower a demagogue at the expense of democracy."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Other Fear of the Founders
America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.
www.theatlantic.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Wealth is no guarantor of wisdom or virtue. A combination of the rich and the ignorant, John Adams noted, could empower a demagogue at the expense of democracy."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately."
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www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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www.wired.com/story/treasu...
February 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately."
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www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
www.bloomberg.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
“While alleged coder Kliger made between zero to three git commits in the last year, workers at the CFPB returned $1.3 billion to scammed Americans in that time.“
nteu335.org
February 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“While alleged coder Kliger made between zero to three git commits in the last year, workers at the CFPB returned $1.3 billion to scammed Americans in that time.“
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So DOGE showed up at the CFPB last night. This truly epic press release identifies the workers by name (and biographical low-points) and goes on to say "we welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators." nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
CFPB Union NTEU 335 spies dodgy DOGE bros - CFPB Union
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Washington, DC, February 7, 2025 — On the evening of February 6, three minions of professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk appeared in the Consum...
nteu335.org
February 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So DOGE showed up at the CFPB last night. This truly epic press release identifies the workers by name (and biographical low-points) and goes on to say "we welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators." nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
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New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
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When Trump (ie Musk), Vance & the GOP say they are pro-family, remember this is the funding they pulled mid-trial...
February 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
When Trump (ie Musk), Vance & the GOP say they are pro-family, remember this is the funding they pulled mid-trial...
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LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.
It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.”
Part 1:
It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.”
Part 1:
February 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.
It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.”
Part 1:
It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.”
Part 1:
I get the feelings of despair and worry that legal rulings won’t be enforced, but I’d give a “fuck yeah!” if these guys so much as tripped over their shoelaces. Anything to grind the gears.
February 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I get the feelings of despair and worry that legal rulings won’t be enforced, but I’d give a “fuck yeah!” if these guys so much as tripped over their shoelaces. Anything to grind the gears.
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I love that these complete morons assumed we were sending palettes of cash to countries and not sending things like rice and wheat while paying American farmers for those goods
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I love that these complete morons assumed we were sending palettes of cash to countries and not sending things like rice and wheat while paying American farmers for those goods
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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Donald Trump is ignoring the worst data breach in history. He's not in control of his administration and has no idea what Elon Musk and his gang of Twitter Youth are doing, or which foreign adversaries they're giving your private information to.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/t...
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/t...
The biggest breach of US government data is under way | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's DOGE has taken control and accessed large swathes of Americans' private information held by the U.S. federal government.
techcrunch.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Donald Trump is ignoring the worst data breach in history. He's not in control of his administration and has no idea what Elon Musk and his gang of Twitter Youth are doing, or which foreign adversaries they're giving your private information to.
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/t...
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/t...
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President Musk and the Twitter Youth are personally going to decide whether your health care is fraud.
bsky.app/profile/wsj....
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Exclusive: DOGE aides have access to payment systems at the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid
Exclusive | DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud
Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
President Musk and the Twitter Youth are personally going to decide whether your health care is fraud.
bsky.app/profile/wsj....
bsky.app/profile/wsj....
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now