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Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:

Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.

Now he’s pardoning them for it.

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annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h
News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.

But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia

My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Alpha at 1.25x speed explains a lot.
CORY DOCTOROW: Yeah, indeed. Musk replied, , "Well, I've read his classic Culture novel series, and there are no trade unions there." And I said, "Yes, but it takes place in a far future where you have giant spaceships with a trillion people on them traveling at a thousand times the speed of light, controlled by artificial intelligences with many millions of times the capacity of human beings." And he said, "Well, I have very advanced factories to make my Teslas." And I said, "There is an enormous difference between the world imagined by lain Banks and the process of eking out very tiny gains in the efficiency of making electric vehicles." And he called me an "enemy of humanity" and blocked me. So, that was my only experience with him. But, you know, like innumerable tech bros, he has mistaken cyberpunk for a suggestion rather than a warning. As someone who is in the business of writing a lot of warnings, I find this baffling and, indeed, very demoralizing.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM