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This. Make it hard for the Republicans to destroy the country.
Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.
February 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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No more business as usual. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are imposing pain on millions of people.

Tonight, we’re taking this fight to the Senate floor.

Russ Vought - author of Project 2025 - is up for a vote, and Democrats are using every second to throw a wrench in their plan.
February 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The U.S. Labor Department has been temporarily blocked by court order from sharing data with Elon Musk and his staffers. 🥄
February 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?"

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
February 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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This.
Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that *they* can.
February 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
@kaine.senate.gov THANK YOU SENATOR KAINE!! Your actions holding the floor all night are truly heroic!! Thank you for fighting for our democracy 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
February 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@markwarner.bsky.social
THANK YOU SENATOR!!! Your actions holding the floor all night are truly heroic. Thank you for fighting for our democracy 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
February 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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12/Additional info found after this initial thread connecting to Russia and VKontakte. Exercise caution.
bsky.app/profile/dave...
Many folks know of Bluesky’s recent funding round from Blockchain Capital LLC. But this adds an interesting new dimension. Will be seeking answers on what interest Mr. Dorofeev has in this investment, given that he works for Russia’s state sanctioned social network, VK.
November 16, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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11/The company should try to address this by publishing a clear and convincing "trust story" that offers assurances about its funders and their motives, similar to an S-1 prior to an IPO. Creators deserve to have a clear picture so they can decide whether and how to invest. Basic transparency.
November 13, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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10/From Bluesky's press release:
"[Blockchain's] Kinjal Shah will join our board. Kinjal shares our vision for a social media ecosystem that empowers the people who use it, and we are glad to have her support as we invest in driving the adoption of decentralized social."
bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky
Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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9/For those interested, here's the original post I shared here back in 2023 re: the TPOT DNA and origins of the network.
bsky.app/profile/euxe...
Presenting an exploration of Bluesky's network. Going to go over the community structure, evolution of the network, top accounts, etc.

First, here is the high-level community structure with some labels. Hi res w/ zoom here: https://www.easyzoom.com/imageaccess/884cb1c001cd48e79aca92232bd24a04
November 13, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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8/While it is reasonable that the company acknowledged that Dorsey's vision of "moderation by protocol" was unfeasible, it sets up a highly centralized model that is now subject to capture. And the next investment they took was from anarchocapitalist cryptobros with ties to Russia? Doesn't add up.
November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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7/Possibly Bluesky can address this by discussing their funding in detail, the expectations of the funders, and whether the TPOT/PostRat community is still a principal driver of the vision for the "company." But this all points to another rug pull in progress, and a lot of credulous people hurt.
November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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6/Eric Adams was a frequent guest on Pierce's jet. Steve Bannon helped Pierce raise $60mm from Goldman Sachs 20 years ago for his "World of Warcraft" mining arbitrage play, Internet Gaming Entertainment. So you probably don't want anything to do with Bluesky long term.
nypost.com/2021/11/23/e...
Eric Adams flew to Puerto Rico on bitcoin billionaire’s private jet
New York City’s next mayors hitched a ride to San Juan on billionaire Brock Pierce’s private Gulfstream jet alongside his partner Tracey Collins, Politico reported on Tuesday.
nypost.com
November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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5/🚨It gets worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady MAGA/Russia ties as well.
universeodon.com/@cryptadamis...
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@cryptadamist@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the compa...
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November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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4/Now that Dorsey has bailed as a board member and principal funder, Bluesky’s DNA is basically TPOT people. Who is going to win in that scenario? I don’t know, but I’m not putting money on the users. The most recent funding came from Blockchain Capital LLC...
www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/241...
Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board
Bluesky is seeking a replacement that shares its goals.
www.theverge.com
November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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3/Someone made the visualization above in 2023, showing the TPOT/EA network quite clearly. EA as you know is part of TESCREAL and the belief systems that have driven Sam Bankman Fried and Elon Musk. SBF also put money into Musk’s Twitter buy.
knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcul...
TPOT / PostRat
TPOT or Postrat is a decentralized community mostly on Twitter. TPOT, which stands for "This Part of Twitter," is an acronym used by some to refer to a gro
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November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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2/The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing this vision were other libertarian/post-rationalists connected with effective altruism and other online anarchist movements. One network called TPOT (‘that part of Twitter’) was instrumental. It carried over into Bluesky’s founding DNA.
November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM