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Wes Miller

@getwired.com

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EX-Microsoft - Research analyst at Directions on Microsoft covering identity, security, management, & Microsoft licensing. Blog: http://getwired.com

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · Nov 6

Just deactivated my Twitter account, where I was also user @getwired. When it goes, it goes.

I’m done contributing to Elon’s harm he has done and will continue to do to this country.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10h

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17m

B R a I n s

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

Our country is being run by evil men. But also very stupid and incompetent ones.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Freezing Cold Takes @oldtakesexposed.bsky.social · 3h

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 3h

For sure.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 3h

repeating non-falsifiable claims undermines the entire premise of journalism

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 4h

What an insane bunch of idiots.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 4h

Again?

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 4h

“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 6h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 6h

He’s gonna create the greatest depression this country has ever seen.

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 17h

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

Yikes?

Reporters: I hope you are digging into this hard.

I can imagine this meaning they are trying to rebuild trust among Republicans (which would be great!). I can also imagine much more worrisome possibilities.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 6h

So dominion voting got sold, look at this fascinating statement from their new owner (not to doom but this is, uh, suboptimal). www.dominionvoting.com

(Dominion voting website now redirecting to libertyvote.com with the following statement:)

Our Promise.
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My Fellow Americans,
Today, I am proud to announce Liberty Vote - a 100% American-owned election technology company dedicated to restoring trust in our elections. Our mission is clear: every vote must be secure, fair, and verifiable.
I have spent my life working to strengthen America's elections. That commitment began years ago, in the aftermath of the 2000 election, when I worked for the Missouri Secretary of State. Later, as Election Director in St. Louis, I led the effort to modernize outdated systems and rebuild public trust. Eventually, I founded an election technology company that today serves nearly one in four voters nationwide.
With Liberty Vote, we are building on that legacy. We are turning the page and beginning the vital work of restoring faith in American elections. While these changes will not happen overnight, Liberty Vote's mission is rooted in American values and committed to transparency, independent audits, and verifiable paper records.
Our purpose is simple: to ensure that America's elections are secure, fair, and honest.
Scott Leiendecker
Founder and Chairman, Liberty Vote

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 6h

I like how they chose a photo of Apple, one of the companies that has invested very minimally compared with the lunacy at Microsoft, Meta, or Google.

Wes Miller @getwired.com · 6h

Shhhh!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

Rarely do I hate, but for Tony Blinken, I will summon it up.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 6h

Marketing, development, CEO

Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 5d

University general counsel, university trustee, university president

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 6h

Sorry. New to me, anyway.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 6h

Bryan Woo gets it 😭😭😭

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 7h

the mariners had a camera on the dugout in the middle of the 15th when humpy won the salmon race

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🇺🇦🦋 DaveThingy 🦋🇺🇦 @davethingy.bsky.social · 7h

Unsolicited Dikdik pic

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 7h

This is what TEI looks like

The Trump Employment Initiative.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board