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Takes long breaks from social media when busy with real life and often found on the water.
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Resistance will take many forms in the days and months ahead.
June 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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jsrailton.bsky.social
12/ OH WOW #WhatsApp publishes the transcribed NSO Group Depositions.

An unprecedented view for investigators into NSO's business, exploit development, operations & financials.

Nothing like this has ever been made public about any spyware company.

Links at bottom: about.fb.com/news/2025/05...
May 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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jamespwest.bsky.social
Murdoch once enjoyed kingmaker status in Aussie politics. No longer.

As I watch Murdoch newscasters lose their shit, great to reread our 2024 piece by Sean Kelly about how the mogul's downunder empire is increasingly out of touch with... actual Australians.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Australia fought back against Murdoch. Your turn, America.
What's the future of the aging mogul's global empire? Look to the place where it all began.
www.motherjones.com
May 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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followtheh.bsky.social
CBC just called Canada for Liberal Party/Carney
April 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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socialsecurityworks.org
Musk and Trump have fired thousands of the employees who made sure Social Security’s benefits have been paid in full and on time for nearly a century.

Cuts to customer service = Social Security cuts!
A graphic with a drawing of wealthy men using hammers to destroy stones that spell “Social Security”. The red text caption says, “The only way our Social Security system’s enemies can attack us is by undermining confidence in the system. SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS.”
April 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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apnews.com
BREAKING: Senator meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over his return to U.S. after mistaken deportation.
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen has met in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.
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April 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13.

“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”
April 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
riverfox1.bsky.social
Man charged with arson at Pennsylvania governor's home struggled with mental health, brother says
Man charged with arson at Pennsylvania governor's home struggled with mental health, brother says
Investigators are working to uncover the motive behind an arson fire over the weekend at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion, the latest act of political violence in the U.S.
apnews.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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indivisible.org
Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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democracydocket.com
Trump’s pending USPS executive order could potentially allow his administration to make mail voting more difficult.
Trump Bid to Take Over Postal Service Could Threaten Mail Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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atrupar.com
Trudeau: "We're probably gonna keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans: we're not booing you ... we're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us. And we're insulted ... we're gonna fight. And we're gonna win."
March 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
February 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
riverfox1.bsky.social
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has jumped the shark:
swordsjew.bsky.social Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Feb 24
epa administrator lee zeldin claims to have found $2 billion in gold bars at an unspecified "outside organization" linked to stacy abrams. no further details offered
ICYMI: Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds Gold Bars from EPA at Stacey Abrams' Connected Group, Biden-Harris Ethical Red Flags Inbox EPA Press Feb 21 to me v View as a webpage / Share U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY NEWS RELEASE EPA.GOV/NEWSROOM ICYMI: Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds Gold Bars from EPA at Stacey Abrams' Connected Group, Biden-Harris Ethical Red Flags WASHINGTON -Less than a month in office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has made progress in uncovering waste and abuse at the agency. This week, he shined a light on $2 billion of the $20 billion gold bars parked by the Biden-Harris administration at an outside organization to reduce ICYMI: Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds Gold Bars from EPA at Stacey Abrams' Connected Group, Biden-Harris Ethical Red Flags WASHINGTON -Less than a month in office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has made progress in uncovering waste and abuse at the agency. This week, he shined a light on $2 billion of the $20 billion gold bars parked by the Biden-Harris administration at an outside organization to reduce oversight set to be distributed to Stacey Abram's Power Forward Communities. It was also revealed that major beneficiaries of the Democrats' Green New Deal include former employers and major donors. Administrator Zeldin told the Free Beacon: "I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I've wasted no time in keeping my word. When we learned about the Biden Administration's scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this. "As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been. It's extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023, was chosen to receive $2 billion. That's 20 million times the brannization a ranarted ravenin
February 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
It may not be efficient to have a government agency devoted to efficiency that does not have a known administrator or any mechanism for accountability.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Feb 24
JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time?

GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Feb 24
Preliminary injunction hearing at 2 p.m. today on DOGE access to Treasury records

Will Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly accept the challenge????

Will we finally learn the identity of the DOGE administrator?????

Stay tuned
February 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
riverfox1.bsky.social
I guess one Herbert Hoover was not enough. Now we have to experience a crazy, conspiracy theory version in Kash Patel.
February 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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indivisible.org
It’s extra important for your GOP senator to hear from you right now if you’re in one of these states.

Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Or send an email to your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...
(next to an image of Kash Patel) IF YOU ARE IN: • Alaska • Idaho • Maine • South Dakota • Utah • Louisiana • Indiana • Kansas THESE SENATORS NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU: • Murkowski • Risch • Collins • Rounds • Curtis • Cassidy • Young • Moran BLOCK KASH PATEL!
February 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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bengoggin.bsky.social
Top Social Security official steps down after disagreement with DOGE over sensitive data
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
Top Social Security official steps down after disagreement with DOGE over sensitive data
The top official's departure is the latest in a wave of exits of senior officials whose agencies have come into the crosshairs of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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marktottenmi.bsky.social
(1/4) Judge Ho just issued an order directing the parties in the Adams case to appear before him tomorrow, Wed 2/19, at 2 pm. His brief review of the law suggests he’ll be asking tough questions, as he should.
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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drewharwell.com
Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
There is Edward Kelley, who was pardoned for assaulting police at the U.S. Capitol, but who is now fighting another case. In November, a jury convicted him of conspiring to murder the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who investigated his Jan. 6 participation, with evidence showing he had a “kill list” of targets. Kelley now argues that conviction should be tossed out, too. The Tennessee man believes that President Trump’s blanket pardon covering “offenses related to events that occurred at or near” the Capitol on Jan. 6 extends beyond that day. Other defendants are similarly arguing they should be absolved of other alleged crimes, such as illegal gun possession and child pornography, discovered during Jan. 6 investigations. At least one defendant has died in a post-pardon altercation with police.
February 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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juliannemcshane.bsky.social
SCOOP w/ @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social for @motherjones.com : A DOGE worker wrote in a recently deleted Substack post that he was radicalized by reading a writer who has denied the Holocaust, boosted 9/11 conspiracy theories, & platformed anti-Black racism.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
DOGE worker says he was radicalized by reading writer who denied Holocaust
In a since-deleted Substack post, a member of Elon Musk's team praised an essay by Ron Unz—who has since called the Holocaust potentially a "hoax" and said Trayvon Martin was "a violent young thug."
www.motherjones.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
riverfox1.bsky.social
I can't wait to see what Judge Dale Ho does with this gobsmacking dismissal request of the Eric Adams case. Hopefully we will get news on Monday of a hearing date.
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Feb 15
Not only is the wet signature of deputy Acting Attorney General Emil Bove there.

The Eric Adams document attributes the decision exclusively to Bove.⬇️

Judge Dale Ho could have a field day with this, as he should for the sake of justice.
February 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Chutkan is holding a hearing on state AGs' effort to stop Elon Musk and DOGE's entire government operation.

Lawyer for NM says Musk is a "literal wrecking ball"

Chutkan is skeptical of urgency of an immediate restraining order.
February 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case.

Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
February 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM