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emptywheel.bsky.social
Here's a description of the Russian attempted access to NLRB from the whistleblower complaint.

whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/u...
21. On or about March 11, 2025, NxGen metrics indicated abnormal usage at points the prior week. I saw way above baseline response times, and resource utilization showed increased network output above anywhere it had been historically – as far back as I could look. I noted that this lined up closely with the data out event. I also notice increased logins blocked by access policy due to those log-ins being out of the country. For example: In the days after DOGE accessed NLRB’s systems, we noticed a user with an IP address in Primorskiy Krai, Russia started trying to log in. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created accounts that were used in the other DOGE related activities and it appeared they had the correct username and password due to the authentication flow only stopping them due to our no-out-of-country logins policy activating. There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE engineers.
April 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Asking for, um, a country?
April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
JFC. So far, Trump has caused markets to lose about 14%.
Here's how the same period to date looks under other recent presidential terms
April 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
In theory this nightmare could end today:
April 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, says the Trump administration's position on Abrego Garcia amounts to a "path of perfect lawlessness." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
He was working for Blanche before. Now he’s just made it official.
April 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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thestudyofwar.bsky.social
MORE: The rate of Russian advances in Ukraine has been steadily declining since November 2024, in part due to successful Ukrainian counterattacks in eastern Ukraine. (🧵1/7)

Full report: isw.pub/UkrWar040625
April 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Now do Trump.
April 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
"Trump was so certain that every other world leader would capitulate because he has such a distorted perception of how people act, in that he is surrounded by the most groveling, sycophantic, obsequious hangers-on with their mouths latched onto his ass."
April 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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ourshallowstate.bsky.social
Exactly! One aspect of Malignant Narcissism is Sadism. People don’t fathom how deeply Trump's driven by it. In normal folk those impulses are offset by caring emotion. Trump has none. He takes glee from others' suffering. Shutdowns, cuts, El Salvador deportations, markets tanking - it's fun for him.
April 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"If people start calling Donald Trump ‘Liz Truss in drag,’ it will be because he blew up his government with a financial crisis entirely of his own making..."

www.marketwatch.com/story/iwas-i...
I was in London for the Liz Truss debacle. 5 lessons for Trump — and all of us.
If people start calling Donald Trump “Liz Truss in drag,” it won’t be because of his policies, but because he blew up his government with a financial crisis entirely of his own making.
www.marketwatch.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.
April 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Trump does care about the pain, chaos, and turmoil he’s causing—in the following sense:

He loves it. It makes him feel powerful.
April 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
The only people worse than Trump are his lackeys and apologists.
Tweet by Arieh Kovler mocking reactions to Trump's tariff plans. It summarizes Trump openly supporting massive tariffs, Harris warning they’ll harm the economy, and Bill Ackman later claiming no one could have foreseen them. Included is Ackman’s tweet expressing disappointment and calling the tariffs unforeseeable.
April 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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harrylitman.bsky.social
Just published this Substack w/ up to the minute info about the Abrego Garcia case, now in the Supreme Court, and the atrocious lawyering that has made the Administration's case even worse.
How to Lose Judges and Alienate People open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
How to Lose Judges and Alienate People
Administration’s tawdry performance in case of man it mistakenly deported
open.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
One month apart.
April 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
When I asked about genocide in Myanmar, FB said it unfortunately couldn't read Burmese text but that it was working on it ... but "we still don't know if it's really going to work." It had been in Myanmar for seven years and had already been accused of helping to facilitate a genocide
One of the people I interviewed while at Facebook headquarters was Guy Rosen, who was then Facebook’s head of product and is now its chief information security officer. I interviewed Rosen about how it could be possible that Facebook had failed so terribly at content moderation in Myanmar that it was being credibly accused of helping to facilitate the genocide of the Rohingya people. What Rosen told me shocked me at the time, and is something that I think about often when I write about Facebook. Rosen said that Facebook’s content moderation AI wasn’t able to parse the Burmese language because it wasn’t a part of Unicode, the international standard for text encoding. Besides having very few content moderators who knew Burmese (and no one in Myanmar), Facebook had no idea what people were posting in Burmese, and no way to understand it: “We still don’t know if it’s really going to work out, due to the language challenges,” Rosen told me. This was in 2018; Facebook had been operating in Myanmar for seven years and had at that time already been accused of helping to facilitate this human rights catastrophe.
April 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Tracks
April 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Looks like another banger of a day on the Dow!

Tired of winning? Great job Trump the greatest destroyer of wealth ever!

Only special people can bankrupt
Casinos who literally are built to guarantee profit!
April 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Howard Lutnick when Tesla was at 288.14 a share: “Buy Tesla! It will never be this cheap again. People are going to dream about today and say they should have bought Musk’s stock.”

Tesla is now 216.66.
April 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
He spent the last 3 days playing golf. Now he’s back in DC working hard.
April 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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wired.com
SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED.
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Yes, they know to not shit where they eat. This crew in the White House does not.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Apr 7
Your corgis would be executing a saner policy this week.
April 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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citizensforethics.org
"Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

With this many active Signal chats, how could they be complying with records law?
Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world
It’s a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump administration’s national security team relies on Signal.
www.politico.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM