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PhillipUSA

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MAGA priorities…

October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑

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🏆 Just sharing this article. No special reason.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

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October 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

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IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

October 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM

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Eric Champnella

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The new Tylenol ad just dropped. Sound up!

September 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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September 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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Christian Petersen

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MAGA FOUND SOME BULLETS AT THE CRIME SCENE...
IMAGE OF 7 BULLETS WITH THESE WORDS INSCRIBED ON THEM:
I’M WOKE, I’M DEFINITELY NOT MAGA, I’M SUPER TRANS, I HEART ANTIFA, SERIOUSLY, I'M NOT MAGA, MORE ABORTION, KAMALA WON.

September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Paper Clip Protest
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September 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM

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Tell Costco: Don't Cave to Extremists—Dispense Mifepristone Now!

Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristone—a safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti...

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September 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 8

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

June 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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May 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM

patentjudy.bsky.social

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And none of that encompasses the DOGE crimes. If only this energy was used for good things. SMH.

BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · May 21

trump 2.0 has:
- measles running rampant
- planes falling out of the sky
- FEMA not responding to disasters
- citizens being snatched off the streets
- Americans paying more because of tariffs.

But hey, at least you got to make trans people uncomfortable. Fucking jackasses.

May 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM

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Mr. Antifascism

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April 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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Otto Kat 🇺🇦⚫️🦩 Героям слава!

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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · Apr 16

If you didn’t watch Rachel Maddow’s show last night, watch a repeat of it on YouTube or MSMBC.

She explains this chilling story in detail.

Someone with a Russian IP address used a DOGE account to attempt to login to the NLRB computer system.

April 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM

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Jill

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Fact.👇🏻

April 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM

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Alt National Park Service

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Sorry for the late-night update. Musk’s staffers are reaching out to leaders of nonprofit organizations, demanding to assign DOGE team members to any institute or agency receiving federal funds.

April 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM

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Anonymous

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Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure.
They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result.
In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter.

While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure.
DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter.
Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests.
When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks.
"We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on
U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer.
That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims.

Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained.
On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed.
"When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE.
He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."

April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM

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SJ Worrier

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Musk needs to be arrested. Trump needs to be impeached. This is treason.

April 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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NurseGenius

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Why is he being interviewed again?? He is a joke. No Economist supports a thing he says except Ron Vara and yet media works hard to give him a platform. Stop it.

April 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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Elizabeth Warren

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Tonight, we forced Republicans to take a simple vote:

Can we all agree that billionaire corporations like Amazon and Tesla - who take home over $1 billion in sheer profit a year - shouldn't get another tax handout?

Republicans said no.

April 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM