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@ccarter84.bsky.social
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Here until it becomes weaponized against us
(See: https://x.com/davetroy/status/1856621399000899595?t=_h0Md1iV__hLptmMdfr6pw&s=19 )
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ccarter84.bsky.social
I have donated for years. Only probably $1k in total. But their fuckup not attributing someone and then tripling down when the facts didn't seem to support it has me done for a bit. Sorry.
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
He doesn't take feedback well either
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
It's not, they've been influencing the narrative over the last few years since a right-wing German billionaire bought the publication
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Two cats, a calico and a lazy boy cat who is slowly settling into being less of a shit stirrer, at least when he's sleepy.
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
This PR flunky is laughable
Department of Homeland Security, said the shooting erupted after patrolling agents were “rammed by 10 cars” and “boxed in.” Agents then fired “defensive shots” when they discovered the woman “was armed with a semi-automatic weapon” while driving one of the cars, McLaughlin said. The Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ have not independently verified the feds’ account. The exact time and location of the shooting weren’t immediately known.
October 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Um, might be user error over her but 404 error
July 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Create a burner email and just sign up for one or two rightwing mailing lists and you'll magically start getting bonkers shit like this. In this case it was Parler, but many others
Subject says birthright citizenship was never meant for illegal aliens, and it's a paid sponsorship email via Parler renting out their shitty user list
June 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Why make up the heat part? Ground is bad enough
June 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
@substack.com guys....why is this so hard?
You have to lose like thousands of upgrades a day, just auto open a webpage or provide a link to click or something...
May 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
I watched an episode of his video podcast like 6 months into the pandemic. Never again, but sent this screenshot to like 5 folks
George Lucas podcast, via youtube. indescribable how bad of a fit it was for my humor
April 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Fucking gross abuse of their position
The same morning, deputies found another car full of immigrants on the way to work on Route 104. They pulled Carlos Palacios over for allegedly making too wide of a turn on the way to a construction job, he said. Palacios, from El Salvador, told Syracuse.com he saw Border Patrol officers driving behind Oswego deputies. Palacios proved he had the proper approval for U.S. residency. His passengers could not. An uncle rushed to the scene to argue with Border Patrol that the passengers were good people on their way to work, a video shows. Still, three passengers were arrested. Palacios said they never gave him a traffic ticket. A video shows that after the men were loaded in a van, a Border Patrol officer and a sheriff’s deputy bumped fists.
April 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
That's the least of it, there were 500x returns that day in smaller volumes
Screenshot of deeper out-of-the money options calls, shit etrade interface but highlighted minute at 11:03 showed 2 contracts for $454 QQQ call trading hands at $0.02 later being worth $10. This turned $2 x 2 contracts into $1,000 x 2 contracts. Doesn't take a lot of those to add up for most people....millionaires have much much more sophisticated ways to get returns at scale, though likely less than 500x ultimately
April 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
It began as a typical briefing, with Homeland Security officials explaining to DOGE a program many describe as a win-win. It had provided some $20 million in recent years to local organizations that provide case workers to keep people in immigration proceedings showing up to court, staff explained, without expensive detentions and ankle monitors. DOGE leader Kyle Schutt, a technology executive who developed a GOP online fundraising platform, interrupted. He wanted Joseph Mazzara, DHS’s acting general counsel, to weigh in. Mazzara was recently appointed to the post after working for Ken Paxton as both an assistant solicitor general and member of the Texas attorney general’s defense team that beat back public corruption charges. Schutt had a different interpretation of the program, according to people who attended or were briefed on the meeting. “This whole program sounds like money laundering,” he said. Mazzara went further. His facial expressions, his use of profanity and the way he combed his fingers through his hair made clear he was annoyed. “We should look into civil RICO charges,” Mazzara said. DHS staff was stunned. The program had been mandated by Congress, yet Homeland Security’s top lawyer was saying it could be investigated under a law reserved for organized crime syndicates. “I took it as a threat,” one attendee said. “It was traumatizing.” For many in the office, known internally as CRCL, that moment was a dark forecast of the future. Several said they scrambled to try to fend off the mass firings they were seeing across the rest of President Donald Trump’s administration. They policed language that Trump’s appointees might not like. They hesitated to open complaints on hot-button cases. They reframed their work as less about protecting civil rights and more about keeping the department out of legal trouble.
April 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
We sanctioned penguins
Screenshot of sanctions against uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands
April 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Omfg
Same text as quoted tweet, just highlighted that "experts say Tren de aragua doesn't use tattoos for member identification"
March 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Fyi
x.com/P_Kallioniem...
A screenshot indicating that the author of the post referenced by the above user further updated their thread with the following (but it basically discounts this as either garbage data, outdated data, or an intentional decoy) TBD for sure I guess. "UPDATE: The information above was fetched from some of the public leak databases going around internet. This particular leak is from 2016, so the account was created before that. The password used was consistent with other similar accounts allegedly linked to Hegseth. @realTimaV was able to create a new account with the username phegseth@mail.ru, which indicates that, 1) the account was deleted by the owner or scrapped by the service 2) the data itself is garbage, red herring, and it was added there by someone as a decoy"
March 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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March 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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March 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
There's a good bit of spirit left out here, just taking folks a bit of time to find their bearings
March 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Colbert holding a "try doing something" sign
March 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
I was way too proud when he blocked me for calling out his use of 4chan memes
Screenshot of noahpinion (Noah Smith) Twitter account saying I am blocked
March 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Really really good stuff here, thanks for the breadcrumbs for those of us who might want to have our own run at parsing this data!
Question: how'd you make this leap, it's just not as documented compared to the rest of the connections
"Mark Spann won! In the announcement video, John says: Your ammo will be shipped out UPS courtesy of Addison, a.k.a. Smokehouse, from Idaho. It will be shipped out UPS with tracking. Looks like I was right about Addison being Smokehouse, and looks like Addison works for UPS"
March 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
ccarter84.bsky.social
This was being done earlier than this. See the write-up in the Guardian from the Canadian woman who recently got out www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Circled part "I met a family of three who had been living in the US for 11 years with work authorizations. They paid taxes and were waiting for their green cards. Every year, the mother had to undergo a background check, but this time, she was told to bring her whole family. When they arrived, they were taken into custody and told their status would now be processed from within the detention center."
March 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
Appreciate ya all addressing it, I definitely don't fully understand the lawfare waged against independent media, but can only imagine the tightrope walk is a slim one
Highlighted portion of their article "There are journalistic ethics and legal limitations that will leave us sounding ludicrously cautious in many situations. This situation, however, should not have been one of them, but the extraordinary weirdness of what happened caught us flat-footed."
March 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
ccarter84.bsky.social
@demfirst.bsky.social guys, there has to be better messaging than this
Text message: WHY WOULD THEY DELAY SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?! what Elon Musk is doing......, you must read >> go.democracyfirstpac.org/03195 DF Stop2End
March 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM