P. Orin Zack
@gznork26.bsky.social
Spent a career in IT stacking bits and stringing words.
High point: NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network during Voyager 1's encounter at Saturn.
Wrote 3 novels & 200+ short stories.
klurgsheld.wordpress.com
Help fix the OS of our self-governance.
#gOS_2.0
High point: NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network during Voyager 1's encounter at Saturn.
Wrote 3 novels & 200+ short stories.
klurgsheld.wordpress.com
Help fix the OS of our self-governance.
#gOS_2.0
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P. Orin Zack
@gznork26.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Fair warning to visitors…
F-I.W. (Freedom: I Won’t) from SF short “And Then There Were None” by Eric Frank Russell
There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch - Heinlein
My ‘Simon Jester’ signature - from “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Heinlein
F-I.W. (Freedom: I Won’t) from SF short “And Then There Were None” by Eric Frank Russell
There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch - Heinlein
My ‘Simon Jester’ signature - from “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Heinlein
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Read this!!! Fucking hell!! He’s got to be stopped!
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Read this!!! Fucking hell!! He’s got to be stopped!
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
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Get in, Dorks. We need to call our reps and tell them to co-sponsor the RFK Jr. Articles of Impeachment.
Your homework:
1. Sign the petition
2. Share with everyone you know
3. Call you Rep
4. Send them a Quack-o-gram
🐥 OK GO!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Your homework:
1. Sign the petition
2. Share with everyone you know
3. Call you Rep
4. Send them a Quack-o-gram
🐥 OK GO!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
SUFS Campaign to Impeach and Remove RFK Jr — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
RFK Jr. is endangering our families, threatening our health, and destroying our place as the world leader in biomedical research. Impeachment is an extreme option, but Bobby is an extreme threat and m...
www.standupforscience.net
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Get in, Dorks. We need to call our reps and tell them to co-sponsor the RFK Jr. Articles of Impeachment.
Your homework:
1. Sign the petition
2. Share with everyone you know
3. Call you Rep
4. Send them a Quack-o-gram
🐥 OK GO!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Your homework:
1. Sign the petition
2. Share with everyone you know
3. Call you Rep
4. Send them a Quack-o-gram
🐥 OK GO!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Our 1st attempt to self-govern failed because it lacked a unifying center. Our 2nd because it lacked purpose.
Our 3rd must be built on a statement of purpose. Gov t is not a business; it is a means to benefit all people, not to enrich a few.
Our 3rd must be built on a statement of purpose. Gov t is not a business; it is a means to benefit all people, not to enrich a few.
https://purpose.gov’t
December 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Our 1st attempt to self-govern failed because it lacked a unifying center. Our 2nd because it lacked purpose.
Our 3rd must be built on a statement of purpose. Gov t is not a business; it is a means to benefit all people, not to enrich a few.
Our 3rd must be built on a statement of purpose. Gov t is not a business; it is a means to benefit all people, not to enrich a few.
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1/6
There's a lot to unpack in the new President's Management Agenda, Russ Vought's blueprint for shrinking agencies and sidelining expertise. But one section felt especially nauseating, so we'll start there: the part about "ending censorship."
Let's break it down. 👇
There's a lot to unpack in the new President's Management Agenda, Russ Vought's blueprint for shrinking agencies and sidelining expertise. But one section felt especially nauseating, so we'll start there: the part about "ending censorship."
Let's break it down. 👇
President Trump's Management Agenda
Delivering a Government Taxpayers Deserve
www.performance.gov
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
1/6
There's a lot to unpack in the new President's Management Agenda, Russ Vought's blueprint for shrinking agencies and sidelining expertise. But one section felt especially nauseating, so we'll start there: the part about "ending censorship."
Let's break it down. 👇
There's a lot to unpack in the new President's Management Agenda, Russ Vought's blueprint for shrinking agencies and sidelining expertise. But one section felt especially nauseating, so we'll start there: the part about "ending censorship."
Let's break it down. 👇
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I don’t know what’s more upsetting at this point… the disgusting and despicable acts of this administration, or that such a large amount of “American” Neo-Nazis exist and support it.
Before, I thought we could heal this after Trump. Now?
Let EVERY piece of filth that cheered this on rot in a cell
Before, I thought we could heal this after Trump. Now?
Let EVERY piece of filth that cheered this on rot in a cell
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I don’t know what’s more upsetting at this point… the disgusting and despicable acts of this administration, or that such a large amount of “American” Neo-Nazis exist and support it.
Before, I thought we could heal this after Trump. Now?
Let EVERY piece of filth that cheered this on rot in a cell
Before, I thought we could heal this after Trump. Now?
Let EVERY piece of filth that cheered this on rot in a cell
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
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Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired.
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
Admiral Alvin Holsey Retires Friday After Clash With Hegseth Over Venezuela Strikes
Admiral Alvin Holsey retires December 12, 2025 after one year leading SOUTHCOM. Breaking news on tensions with Hegseth over Caribbean strikes.
allaboutlawyer.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired.
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
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The government is not there to profit from the people.
It is there to serve the people.
It is there to serve the people.
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The government is not there to profit from the people.
It is there to serve the people.
It is there to serve the people.
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Just once I'd like to hear a TV news anchor say, "Sir, that's not true, and if you keep insisting it is, we're going to end this interview to protect our viewers from further disinformation. And we won't invite you back."
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just once I'd like to hear a TV news anchor say, "Sir, that's not true, and if you keep insisting it is, we're going to end this interview to protect our viewers from further disinformation. And we won't invite you back."
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The 14 day Stanford Prison Experiment was shut down after 6 days because the students suddenly given power as ‘guards’ over other students instantly became…a lot like these ICE/DHS goons.
BTW, The student ‘prisoners’ developed mental/behavioral issues. www.britannica.com/event/Stanfo...
BTW, The student ‘prisoners’ developed mental/behavioral issues. www.britannica.com/event/Stanfo...
Stanford Prison Experiment | History, Summary, & Facts | Britannica
The Stanford Prison Experiment was a social psychology study (1971) in which college students became prisoners or guards in a simulated prison environment. Intended to measure the effect of role-playi...
www.britannica.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The 14 day Stanford Prison Experiment was shut down after 6 days because the students suddenly given power as ‘guards’ over other students instantly became…a lot like these ICE/DHS goons.
BTW, The student ‘prisoners’ developed mental/behavioral issues. www.britannica.com/event/Stanfo...
BTW, The student ‘prisoners’ developed mental/behavioral issues. www.britannica.com/event/Stanfo...
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I really hate that this is happening, but this has been happening to Black people and other minorities, since the beginning. Maybe now that whites are also being affected we can get criminal justice reform.
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I really hate that this is happening, but this has been happening to Black people and other minorities, since the beginning. Maybe now that whites are also being affected we can get criminal justice reform.
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“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
abc7chicago.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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We and the rest of the Anti-Fascist Veteran Alliance got something to say about unlawful orders:
@americanopposition.org @sonsofliberty.bsky.social @moneyoutofpolitics.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social @faforg1.bsky.social @flareusa.bsky.social
@americanopposition.org @sonsofliberty.bsky.social @moneyoutofpolitics.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social @faforg1.bsky.social @flareusa.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We and the rest of the Anti-Fascist Veteran Alliance got something to say about unlawful orders:
@americanopposition.org @sonsofliberty.bsky.social @moneyoutofpolitics.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social @faforg1.bsky.social @flareusa.bsky.social
@americanopposition.org @sonsofliberty.bsky.social @moneyoutofpolitics.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social @faforg1.bsky.social @flareusa.bsky.social
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Kristi Noem knows the constitution like I know brain surgery
She’s riffing; talking confidently knowing her ass disobeyed a lawful order from a judge
All those Trump cabinet members think of themselves as gods, immune to the orders of mere federal judges
They need to have their wings clipped
She’s riffing; talking confidently knowing her ass disobeyed a lawful order from a judge
All those Trump cabinet members think of themselves as gods, immune to the orders of mere federal judges
They need to have their wings clipped
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Kristi Noem knows the constitution like I know brain surgery
She’s riffing; talking confidently knowing her ass disobeyed a lawful order from a judge
All those Trump cabinet members think of themselves as gods, immune to the orders of mere federal judges
They need to have their wings clipped
She’s riffing; talking confidently knowing her ass disobeyed a lawful order from a judge
All those Trump cabinet members think of themselves as gods, immune to the orders of mere federal judges
They need to have their wings clipped
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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👏 Hegseth did not commit a war crime👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
👏 Hegseth did not commit a war crime👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏