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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 22h

This was definitely worth breaking Google search to push on people

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 23h

Ok you got me

Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 23h

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 1d

This would be like writing the U.S.'s National Defense University is "associated" with the Department of Defense, except that NDU doesn't go to elaborate and hilarious lengths to disguise its relationship to gullible foreigners.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 1d

Today's niche China field gripe: It's the year of our lord 2025 and I'm still seeing purportedly serious China analysts write that CICIR is "associated" with the MSS, as if there is somehow something unclear about the relationship. CICIR *is* the MSS. It's literally an MSS bureau.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 2d

Some impressive, careful work here by Devin Thorne of Recorded Future (whom I wish was on bsky so I could tag him). www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...

BIETA: A Technology Enablement Front for China's MSS

Discover how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) almost certainly operates BIETA and its subsidiary CIII as public fronts for cyber-espionage, covert communications, and technology acquisition. C...

www.recordedfuture.com

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 4d

Know I'm preaching to the choir saying this to the author of Our Towns, but also more stories about local and state-level officials enacting policies that *work*

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 5d

It's not the best, and no one's ever going to agree with me, but No Line on the Horizon might be the most interesting thing U2 have done post their Achtung/Zooropa trip to outer space

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 6d

Least I can do/say 🙏

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 6d

"how dare the world's most well-known Catholic suggest I feel shame!!!"

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 6d

Put this by @franceshisgen.bsky.social on my list awhile back, and being the scatterbrain I am it took a bit to get around to it. It's worth a few minutes of your time, if for nothing else than to acknowledge the bravery it takes to stand up and say this right now. nuvoices.com/2025/07/01/i...

I work in US policy – being Chinese is now an occupational hazard

nuvoices.com

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 6d

"Demanding," Bondi's own word, is a far more blatant example of improper jawboning than any of the connect-the-dots, passive examples in the Twitter Files and adjacents, which seldom rose beyond "pretty please."

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone.

The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.

Alt text: Screenshot of a Fox News Digital article reporting that Apple removed the ICEBlock tracking app from its App Store after the Department of Justice raised safety concerns. The article states DOJ officials, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, asked Apple to take down the app, claiming it endangered law enforcement officers and shielded illegal immigrants. Bondi confirmed the removal in a statement, saying ICEBlock put ICE agents at risk and emphasized DOJ’s commitment to protecting federal officers.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 7d

i love you/how dare you

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 7d

Big tech CEOs have spent more than a decade puffing their chests and saying that they are more like heads of state running global companies with bigger revenues than many countries

… but now they’re all folding to actual government pressure faster than any tinpot dictator has ever folded

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Joe Slowik @pylos.co · 8d

Just say “blood and soil” already and save us a few steps.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 8d

"thank God it landed in that smoking crater over there!"

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 8d

🎶from the, town of Springfield/ he's about to hit a chestnut tree🎶

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 9d

I for one believe we can make this happen!!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 9d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 11d

Pawthic

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 14d

Used to live right at the east end of that hutong and I love the whole neighborhood dearly for precisely stuff like this

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 15d

The Quincy Institute continues to manipulate data nearly to the point of misinformation.

The spending here is on Defense, not "war;" it encompasses way more activities than that. 25% of that budget goes to personnel costs.

As a percentage of GDP, US def spending is about 3.5, which puts it in the/

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 15d

The same is true of millions of others, and I'm guessing I'm far from the only one getting a little tired of anti-vaxx crusaders presuming to pretend they speak with the interests of future members of our community at heart.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 15d

Like me, the vast majority of spectrum-dwellers do *not* require any kind of serious medical assistance. I can't speak for all of them, but for my part, I wouldn't trade it for a "normal" brain. It's been a blessing, as much as it's been a challenge. It's taught me empathy, patience, perseverance.

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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social · 15d

Me and like half of the best people I know exist somewhere on the spectrum. Deeply, deeply misguided, this idea that the US should burn down huge parts of its public health infrastructure just so no one should ever be like us.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 16d

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

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