Serienya
serienya.bsky.social
Serienya
@serienya.bsky.social
Science nerd, gamer, mom
What gets me is that they repeated a lot of the same stuff from Trump 1.0, just turned up to 11, but expected different results.
Ben Smith: I don’t know if Stephen Miller resigns before the midterms, resigns after the midterms, or sticks around. But this feels like that moment when a president puts a lot of confidence in one adviser to steer national policy in a direction that turns out to be politically disastrous.
February 18, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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That's not the way it works. Again, it's a political move with midterms not based on any sort of financial or legal reality.

#propertytaxes
February 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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For those of you who mail-in do so early due to changes in postal service time stamps. Do not forget that last election several drop boxes were torched & set on fire to destroy votes. So that might not be a good idea unless your state provides security. Expect bomb threats on Election Day like b4
February 16, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Along these lines: if you live in Minneapolis, the Hennepin County Attorney we elect this fall is going to be the lawyer in charge of prosecuting ICE agents for the murders and atrocities they committed against us. That's why I'm supporting Cedrick Frazier.
I was at a campaign event yesterday & a politician friend made this very important point to me: we can talk about all the different MN elections in Nov, but none of them is as close and crucial to fighting fascism than reelecting Keith Ellison
February 16, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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i just

it seems very unfair
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Are there any groups helping folks get acceptable IDs if Republicans pass their bullshit laws? If yes, drop the links so we can start fundraising.
February 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be
February 15, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Folks have noted that shutting down DHS also means shutting down FEMA. But it's important to remember that Trump already has been fighting to deny $233 million in FEMA funding to blue states. www.ksbw.com/article/judg...
Judge orders restored disaster funding to Democratic-led states
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must restore $233 million in disaster funding to at least a dozen states. The funding was previously slashed over so-called "sanctuary" immigrat...
www.ksbw.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Call me crazy, but having the commander in chief of the military trying to order the military to vote for him seems like an unacceptable abuse of power.
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Steve Sack.
February 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Thiel had ties to Epstein. Palantir is part of the surveillance state.

Why is Discord partnering with anything linked with those?

Do they think users will stick around?

www.pcgamer.com/software/pla...
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
www.pcgamer.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked
Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side.

Will DHS retract the prior claims?
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Telegraphing election interference and voter intimidation.

www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
www.huffpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I feel like this is something relevant to Gail Simone’s interests.
All I'm doing today is lettering kaiju moans. All day.
February 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
In a normal world, this would bring Congress into the ring.
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Of course this asshole has been sexually harassing staff and burning through taxpayer money…

www.biospace.com/fda/fdas-pra...
FDA’s Prasad Weathers Personal Controversy, Internal Strife Amid Moderna Imbroglio
Vinay Prasad, the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research head, is accused of interpersonal impropriety as pushback builds against his decision to reject Moderna’s influenza vaccine candida...
www.biospace.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Where is Congress?
In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM