Bill
@billmacconnel.bsky.social
The world does not self-correct.
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BREAKING: The Census Bureau is scaling down this year's major #2030Census field test by reducing the six planned test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., & Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to the Federal Register
Public Inspection: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census
www.federalregister.gov
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
BREAKING: The Census Bureau is scaling down this year's major #2030Census field test by reducing the six planned test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., & Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to the Federal Register
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The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
“There is a strategy from the White House to consolidate the right in the western hemisphere,” says Lester Ramírez, a Honduran political analyst who teaches public policy at the Central American Technological University in Tegucigalpa. “It’s about creating a hegemony of the right.”
Why Trump vows to pardon a Honduran drug trafficker, but threatens war elsewhere
Why Trump vows to pardon a Honduran drug trafficker, but threatens war elsewhere
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December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“There is a strategy from the White House to consolidate the right in the western hemisphere,” says Lester Ramírez, a Honduran political analyst who teaches public policy at the Central American Technological University in Tegucigalpa. “It’s about creating a hegemony of the right.”
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Career prosecutors were put on leave, allegedly for stating the truth about J6. The Administration is working overtime to erase history. It’s incumbent upon all of us to document truth, preserve historical record, and stand firm against efforts to replace facts.
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack
Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.
abcnews.go.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Career prosecutors were put on leave, allegedly for stating the truth about J6. The Administration is working overtime to erase history. It’s incumbent upon all of us to document truth, preserve historical record, and stand firm against efforts to replace facts.
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
If they can dismantle and game the federal government as quickly and as savagely as they did, when the pendulum swings the other way, nationalizing SpaceX and Palantir should be a given.
May 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
If they can dismantle and game the federal government as quickly and as savagely as they did, when the pendulum swings the other way, nationalizing SpaceX and Palantir should be a given.
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So maybe this isn’t real, or it WAS real until a grownup found out about DOGE’s latest.
April 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
So maybe this isn’t real, or it WAS real until a grownup found out about DOGE’s latest.
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@gilduran.com's work communicating the full scope of what the tech bros and NRx are really up to is absolute must-see must-hear content. And @davetroy.com's long-term, multidimensional deep understanding & analysis of the big picture is unparalleled. Grateful to hear them in conversation together
📻 NEW: "The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran" Tech bros don't want to run the federal government, they want to eliminate it. Journalist @gilduran.com joins me to discuss the Network State and Neoreactionary movements, and how to counter them.
america2.news/the-nerd-rei...
america2.news/the-nerd-rei...
The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
Tech bros don't want to run the federal government — they want to eliminate it.
america2.news
March 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
@gilduran.com's work communicating the full scope of what the tech bros and NRx are really up to is absolute must-see must-hear content. And @davetroy.com's long-term, multidimensional deep understanding & analysis of the big picture is unparalleled. Grateful to hear them in conversation together
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If the next Dem administration doesn’t nationalize SpaceX it’s malpractice.
"be quiet, small man"
jfc
jfc
Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.
March 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If the next Dem administration doesn’t nationalize SpaceX it’s malpractice.
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Elon obviously has *not* cracked the code. He can barely parse data that is plain to thousands of federal workers.
What he has done is give the GOP an excuse to hollow out government and seize more power with his shitty AI + automation logic.
What he has done is give the GOP an excuse to hollow out government and seize more power with his shitty AI + automation logic.
Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."
February 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Elon obviously has *not* cracked the code. He can barely parse data that is plain to thousands of federal workers.
What he has done is give the GOP an excuse to hollow out government and seize more power with his shitty AI + automation logic.
What he has done is give the GOP an excuse to hollow out government and seize more power with his shitty AI + automation logic.
I look forward to the historical reckoning that explains how two South African tech-libertarians, one a dope fiend, both more beholden to the Alternative für Deutschland, (AfD) party than democracy, breached the national security tripwires and inserted themselves into its infrastructure.
February 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I look forward to the historical reckoning that explains how two South African tech-libertarians, one a dope fiend, both more beholden to the Alternative für Deutschland, (AfD) party than democracy, breached the national security tripwires and inserted themselves into its infrastructure.
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1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.
February 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.
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74% of Americans, including 54% of Republicans and 93% of Democrats, disapprove of Trump's pardons for Jan. 6ers convicted of violent crimes. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
February 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
74% of Americans, including 54% of Republicans and 93% of Democrats, disapprove of Trump's pardons for Jan. 6ers convicted of violent crimes. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Former mi. Gov. Rick Snyder is a perfect example. He handed over the states unemployment system redesign to a private company. They inserted code that automatically flagged 60% of all claims fraudulent…multiple suicides & family’s ruined. Oh…the Flint water crisis too. Barbaric private equity shit.
There is a grand tradition of technologists landing in government and not understanding how it works. That ignorance can be about policy and law, but also about the infrastructure of government tech, and how fragile it all is. @pahlkadot.bsky.social offers an example: www.eatingpolicy.com/p/jed
Jed
Today is Fork in the Road Day. The DOGE team should really meet Jed.
www.eatingpolicy.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Former mi. Gov. Rick Snyder is a perfect example. He handed over the states unemployment system redesign to a private company. They inserted code that automatically flagged 60% of all claims fraudulent…multiple suicides & family’s ruined. Oh…the Flint water crisis too. Barbaric private equity shit.
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At a moment when the largest AI companies are all openly aligning with Trumpism, I'm proud to share a new report:
*AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture*
By Joana Varon, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Mariana Tamari, Berhan Taye, and Vanessa Koetz
oneproject.org/wp-content/u...
*AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture*
By Joana Varon, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Mariana Tamari, Berhan Taye, and Vanessa Koetz
oneproject.org/wp-content/u...
oneproject.org
February 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
At a moment when the largest AI companies are all openly aligning with Trumpism, I'm proud to share a new report:
*AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture*
By Joana Varon, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Mariana Tamari, Berhan Taye, and Vanessa Koetz
oneproject.org/wp-content/u...
*AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture*
By Joana Varon, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Mariana Tamari, Berhan Taye, and Vanessa Koetz
oneproject.org/wp-content/u...
Feel good story of the week: The ruling also clears the way for the church to try to seize any money that the Proud Boys might make by selling merchandise like hats or T-shirts emblazoned with their name or with any of their familiar logos, including a black and yellow laurel wreath.
February 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Feel good story of the week: The ruling also clears the way for the church to try to seize any money that the Proud Boys might make by selling merchandise like hats or T-shirts emblazoned with their name or with any of their familiar logos, including a black and yellow laurel wreath.
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Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
February 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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sick sick art
February 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
sick sick art
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The NIH is down but this goober wants to bailout OpenAi.
The DeepSeek announcement from China has been called by some AI’s “Sputnik moment” for America.
It’s precisely why I made AI a top priority in the last Congress and will keep at it.
It’s precisely why I made AI a top priority in the last Congress and will keep at it.
January 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The NIH is down but this goober wants to bailout OpenAi.
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Well, it’s Monday, and the Inspectors General are resisting Trump’s illegal attempt to fire them with a letter saying, “Heck no, we won’t go!”
January 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Well, it’s Monday, and the Inspectors General are resisting Trump’s illegal attempt to fire them with a letter saying, “Heck no, we won’t go!”
Welcome to the Tech-feudalism
Jungle; As new technologies enter a society, they disrupt the connections between institutions, practices, virtues, and rewards. They can render traditions purposeless, destroy the distinction between virtuous and vicious behavior, make customary ways of life obsolete.
Jungle; As new technologies enter a society, they disrupt the connections between institutions, practices, virtues, and rewards. They can render traditions purposeless, destroy the distinction between virtuous and vicious behavior, make customary ways of life obsolete.
January 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Welcome to the Tech-feudalism
Jungle; As new technologies enter a society, they disrupt the connections between institutions, practices, virtues, and rewards. They can render traditions purposeless, destroy the distinction between virtuous and vicious behavior, make customary ways of life obsolete.
Jungle; As new technologies enter a society, they disrupt the connections between institutions, practices, virtues, and rewards. They can render traditions purposeless, destroy the distinction between virtuous and vicious behavior, make customary ways of life obsolete.
A peaceful CATURDAY to all.
December 3, 2023 at 12:11 AM
A peaceful CATURDAY to all.
November 29, 2023 at 12:46 AM
The pencil used in the non disclosure with the Taylor Swift football guy.
November 25, 2023 at 7:32 PM
The pencil used in the non disclosure with the Taylor Swift football guy.