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@historynerd13.bsky.social
Historian and aspiring curmudgeon
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During an Aug 2024 episode of Infinita City’s podcast, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale said, “I think the media is extremely important to redo…I’m helping a lot there. Bari Weiss is doing a much better job than anyone else I know…” (He & Weiss also co-founded a university.) 1/
December 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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So it’s convict leasing.
The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
July 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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👀 The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has just published an article by A3P Sr. Counsel Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to the states & requires a separation of church & state. 1/
June 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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If you watch as these assholes force a senator out the door, Noem is prattling on in the background about how her poor little ICE agents have been mistreated in LA.

Even as they brutalize an elected official, they're pretending they're the fucking victims. Christ.
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Excellent thread by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social re Trump’s 6/7/25 EO federalizing the National Guard and authorizing domestic use of regular armed forces over Governor’s objection.
<Thread>

I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces.

Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into.

(It will also escalate from here.)

Preview⤵️
June 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.

The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.
June 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Dystopian, especially and not only because Peter Thiel is basically a comic book villain

newrepublic.com/post/195904/...
Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American
Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.
newrepublic.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Timeline cleanser... because too much sucks right now
May 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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someone tell jake tapper and the rest of the dc media club that theres an elderly out of touch man with his hands on the nukes.

oh wait, he's a republican. doesnt count.
Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
May 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” includes a clause giving Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a terrorism supporter.

The bill is in the reconciliation process, meaning it only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.
Republicans Slip Nonprofit Killer Bill Into Budget Plan
The “nonprofit killer bill” is hidden at the very end of Republicans’ massive 389-page budget package.
newrepublic.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Phrases that should have been found:

—“illegal and unconstitutional conduct”
—“impeachable offense”
—“lawless president unchecked by weak Congress”
Phrases found in this NYT piece:
— “ethical alarms about the potential for corruption”
— “an increasingly no-holds-barred atmosphere in Washington under Trump 2.0”
— “striking disdain for onetime norms of propriety and for traditional legal and political guardrails”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Trump’s Plan to Accept Luxury Jet From Qatar Strains Bounds of Propriety
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has begun baselessly claiming that birthright citizenship is a massive welfare scam.

Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.
Stephen Miller Unveils Bizarre New Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Stephen Miller has found a new excuse to ignore the Constitution.
newrepublic.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This is an enormous theft—not just privatizing a government function with a worse and more expensive for-profit substitute, but also a massive government financial data heist—and on the other side of it everyone needs to end up broke and imprisoned to deter them and others from doing it again.
Reported earlier today that a new DOGEr, Roland Tenglong Shen, who works at Thiel-backed payments company Ramp, is now at Treasury's central payments hub. A request for comment through LinkedIn went unanswered and now Shen's LinkedIn profile has disappeared. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rampi...
Rampin’ Up, Baby! That Thiel Start Up Hunting the Motherlode Contract is Inside Treasury
One of the most important stories in some time came out two...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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🚨News: A prominent author reached out to me about how the Trump administration tried to denaturalize her father-in-law and end his social security benefits and Medicare.

Her family speaks English and was able advocate for him. But what about those that can’t?
April 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

@northendpage.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez is in ICE detention despite being a citizen. Welcome to Trump’s America.
ICE Detains U.S.-Born Citizen Despite Judge Seeing Birth Certificate
Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez is in ICE detention despite being a citizen. Welcome to Trump’s America.
newrepublic.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Trump's counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says Americans critical of deportations like Abrego Garcia's are providing "material support" to terrorists — a felony crime.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-cou...
Trump's Counterterror Czar Proposes Terror Charges for Democrats
Either you love America or you don’t, he says
www.kenklippenstein.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.

Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
April 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
FWIW...."For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world," and "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses," just happen to be two things Jefferson decided to write down in that pesky little document called The Declaration of Independence
April 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM