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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 45m

Tremendous sense here.

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1h

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 3h

Great, it was.

Now call it a career and get out on top before everything falls apart.

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 14h

Aside from the wisdom of this idea in the first place, blabbing it to the press seems unwise, period.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d

Corporations are rolling out new AI tech that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but opens up new ways to control and exploit workers.

Workers, researchers, and tech experts agree that we need a new generation of labor and tech protections: https://bit.ly/4oeGBKn

The “Privacy” Trap

Corporations are rolling out new technologies that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but actually create more ways to control and exploit workers. This brief offers concrete principles fo...

datasociety.net

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 16h

Exactly. I had a new boss once, from outside the biz; I’d been running the unit for 10 years.

Spent a day with him dissecting one of his bright ideas after another & why it wouldn’t work. ‘We already tried that, here’s the constraints we face.’

He never listened. I quit.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 21h

I’m really not sure he does know he was president on Jan. 6.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 1d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Reporters need to ask questions of Trump that test his cognitive ability and memory.

‘Who was president when covid started?'
‘Who ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden?'
‘Who was president during the financial crisis?'

Etc. The man’s memory is shot, he has dementia.

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost like the de minimis exception existed for a reason, as do government employees.

But no, the dolts in the White House think everyone before them just didn’t understand the problem, and every thought they have is a fresh new way of solving things.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason why these layoff threats aren’t going to land the way Vought thinks. Just like the DOGE dorks who fired too many people and hired a bunch back, it’s going to happen again here.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Just wild guess here, but who’s the Trump crony behind this payday loan venture?

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Lapsed Catholic here. This is a priest who’d get me to go back to Mass.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Criminal gangs will now do this too— after all, game recognizes game.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Any ‘Trump is back in the hospital’ headlines would fit too.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1d

You wonder why everyday folks don’t follow the news and then you read about how a super rich man keeps himself informed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

What is Vought’s bargaining strategy here? Can’t Dems just say, ‘Fine, now if you want our votes you gotta hire them all back too?’

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

And as practical matter — are the white supremacists up there going to be OK with this?

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a helmet says " this is the way "

ALT: a man in a helmet says " this is the way "

media.tenor.com

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

Are we sure Bondi didn’t orchestrate that distance so she can hang this on Halliday’s head when both this indictment and the Comey one are dismissed?

Like, qui bono here? Bondi does.

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

This is the correct analysis.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2d

Really struck by how brilliant a protesting tactic this is not just in terms of optics, but as a form of both privacy protection and discouragement of violence.

It masks your face and has to give pause to anyone thinking about beating you up.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 3d

Judge’s analysis is here correct, but when this reaches Supreme Court look for Roberts and the rest of the Krazy Patrol to invalidate everything after ‘because.’

They’ll say it isn’t judiciary’s place to evaluate a president’s reason for exercising control. Therefore, troops can go in.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 3d

Greene sees this as a problem. The theocrats running the White House see it as the goal; because if you’re chosen by God of course you won’t get sick, and if you do get sick then you’re not chosen and deserve it.

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 3d

Even by Thiel’s deeply dysfunctional and paranoid standards, I don’t follow the logic here. The antichrist is likely to be a critic of technology, but he’ll exploit financial technology and regulation to seize power? Wha?

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

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.

www.washingtonpost.com