Digger Diplomat
@peedeendn.bsky.social
2 Spirit NDN diplomat. SC native and rabid #Gamecock fan. #Woodworker. Once and future archaeologist 🏳️🌈
@drannieandrews.com I’m a recently retired Foreign Service Officer and am moving home to SC next month. I would love to help with your campaign!
May 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
@drannieandrews.com I’m a recently retired Foreign Service Officer and am moving home to SC next month. I would love to help with your campaign!
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We’re still fighting back
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
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Update from Zach Montague
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We’re still fighting back
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
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USIP is an important non-profit, non-partisan, non-executive branch institution established by Congress to help find ways to prevent wars. DOGE is dismantling it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Most employees at US Institute of Peace mass-fired via late-night email
Congressionally created and funded thinktank taken over by ‘Doge’ seeks to prevent and resolve global conflicts
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
USIP is an important non-profit, non-partisan, non-executive branch institution established by Congress to help find ways to prevent wars. DOGE is dismantling it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Wish this were about my Russia analysis (Putin is playing Trump), but glad I could help get the word out about what Trump and DOGE are doing to U.S. institutions. www.reuters.com/world/us/dus...
As dusk falls in Washington on Fridays, the firings begin
Mary Glantz was in her room at a Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina, last Friday night during a trip visiting friends when her phone began pinging furiously with messages at 9:30 p.m.
www.reuters.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Wish this were about my Russia analysis (Putin is playing Trump), but glad I could help get the word out about what Trump and DOGE are doing to U.S. institutions. www.reuters.com/world/us/dus...
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You know, maybe if we only had some system in place that could, idk, search the background of workers in the government, for maybe clearing the status of their potential threat to security prior to letting them hack our computers??
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface
Marko Elez had recently been given special access by a federal judge to highly sensitive payment systems in the Department of Treasury.
www.npr.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
You know, maybe if we only had some system in place that could, idk, search the background of workers in the government, for maybe clearing the status of their potential threat to security prior to letting them hack our computers??
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
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YES. Being in the minority means Dems can’t block Trump’s noms. But they can DELAY & use every extra moment to tell the public why noms like Patel are so dangerous to our democracy.
That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...
That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Committee punts on Kash Patel vote as Democrats keep up the pressure
It's not unusual for the Senate Judiciary Committee to delay votes a week, but Democrats made a show of it in opposition to President Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI.
www.politico.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
YES. Being in the minority means Dems can’t block Trump’s noms. But they can DELAY & use every extra moment to tell the public why noms like Patel are so dangerous to our democracy.
That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...
That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
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This is entirely true. A lot of the high value posters have moved here, people who intelligently discuss important topics, report on news that major media outlets are often so slow on, and whats more... the trolls, hate comments, and slurs are a tiny fraction of what they are on Elon's twitter.
Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:02 PM
This is entirely true. A lot of the high value posters have moved here, people who intelligently discuss important topics, report on news that major media outlets are often so slow on, and whats more... the trolls, hate comments, and slurs are a tiny fraction of what they are on Elon's twitter.
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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 PM
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Socrates: the cup had *what* in it?
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Socrates: the cup had *what* in it?
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Charles Dickens: It was the best of cups, it was the worst of cups, it was the cup of wisdom, it was the cup of foolishness, it was the mug of Light, it was the beer stein of Darkness
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Charles Dickens: It was the best of cups, it was the worst of cups, it was the cup of wisdom, it was the cup of foolishness, it was the mug of Light, it was the beer stein of Darkness
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
November 24, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Socrates: the cup had *what* in it?
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Socrates: the cup had *what* in it?