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What good is seeing-eye chocolate? What good is a computerized nose? What good’s Sanskrit read to a pony? Not much, I guess, not much at all.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · Mar 28

Going to start a list of every program, agency, board, etc. that I can find that we know have been DOGEd out of existence. (You can also just check in with @kellylsmith.bsky.social at UCSD, where she maintains an exhaustive list of acronyms and links, including monthly data on who's been 404d).

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 2h

For a properly motivated judge, every case can be a case of first impression.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 6h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13h

And now CISA, America’s front line for digital security (and a showpiece of Trump I until they refused to lie about election security) is packed up and unceremoniously shoved towards the exit.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13h

To be fair to his thesis, you /can/ significantly reduce the size of the government when you just outsource the police power to bigoted violent lynch mobs.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13h

Looks like we’re back to gutting high-criticality health programs again:

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 15h

Aggravated newsgathering and malicious truthtelling.

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 17h

(For the medical taxonomy pedants, yes, ICD, not CPT, but an unsolicited CPT code is either an emergency or malpractice.)

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 17h

Unsolicited HCPCS

ICD-10 Code V00.01XD, “Pedestrian on foot injured in collision with roller-skater, subsequent encounter.” Uh … subsequent?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 18h

“Which way, Western man,” when the wrong answer is “sizzling plate of skirt steak and vegetables on a tortilla” and the right answer is “one raw egg.”

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 20h

I see we’re at the “disappearing news media” stage of things already.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21h

“A longtime TV news produced at Chicago-based station WGN on Friday was forcefully pinned to the ground and then hauled off in an unmarked van by masked federal agents.” www.commondreams.org/news/ice-chi...

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams

WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.

www.commondreams.org

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 23h

It’s not a plan, but it’s a vertical monopolization opportunity that they will happily take advantage of when it comes available.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 23h

Both NY senators voting for this, a measure designed entirely to put the onus on House Democrats, is emblematic of party fecklessness at the highest levels.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Last night, 26 Senate Dems helped pass a NDAA containing a military trans sports and surgery ban and dropped demands for protections against US troop deployments in the bill.

It is the latest in the national fight over must-pass bills during the shutdown.

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26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 23h

At this point they’re working so hard to hide the files it’s reasonable to assume they’re very bad, that the political layer believes they can’t hide the damning evidence, and they think that once it comes out it’s going to dominate everything else and make it impossible to carry out Miller’s plans.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 23h

“Small power surrounded by middle powers” is a tough hand to play, better to have a major power as a friendly for that.

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 23h

And Singapore’s probably a good proxy for understanding what Qatar wants: not an alliance, but a partnership they can balance with regional powers like Iran, use to keep rivals within the GCC slightly off-balance, and maintain US involvement in the region that might otherwise get redirected.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 1d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 1d

Whole lotta ruin in a nation, etc., etc.

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 1d

Is it a concern that so many SV billionaires who abruptly pivoted into military and police/intelligence technology are also members of a heretical apocalyptic techno-religious cult that seeks to overthrow the secular world order? Maybe!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 1d

Singapore’s already doing their F-15s out of Mountain Home, so makes perfect sense to base those new Qatari-block fighters there for training. Also an indication Trump isn’t gonna try to push Congress to approve F-35 sales to SoQ.

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there you go. Idiots were handed a golden opportunity to seize the news cycle and declare a rare win, and this is what they came back with.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it’s actually a fairly strong if oblique message to Israel regarding the airstrikes, plus probably an indication SoQ isn’t getting F-35s, since that’s an F-15 training base. This is literally the most, maybe only, competent and normal thing this administration has done in the past nine months.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 1d

At a guess, this is probably going to look like the formal Euro training centers at Holloman and Sheppard AFBs, with an eye towards integrating their new F-15s into a US-centric common operating picture. MUO’s already being used for US and Singapore F-15s, so makes sense to use it for SoQ training.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 1d

This is, however, as far as I know the first time the Committee has awarded a Prize that could directly trigger a major military conflict, so that’s interesting.