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@taberwest.bsky.social

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Disabled veteran, engineer, former government worker, former corporate executive, solutions architect, currently trying to save what's left of the planet and our democracy.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · Nov 26

Since I've tried every prominent social media platform since the beginning, I should introduce myself. I'm a Desert Storm disabled veteran. I worked for DOE at Los Alamos National Laboratory for over 15 years, and another 15 years in Fortune 100 companies as a CTO. I have started 4 businesses.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 9h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10... This is what young republicans are chatting about and planning in groups online. This is America's version of Hitler's youth corps.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14h

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.

The Machine Stops

The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

www.newyorker.com

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 4d

Fall colors over Leadville, CO.

Fall colors and a vertical sunset light over a peak above leadville colorado.

NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 4d

Dear,
Journalists of the world who are still using quaint terms to describe heinous acts.

Get your heads out of your collective asses.

This is war.

Start showing the uncut videos and pictures.

Use the correct terminology.

Thank you.

freebroomrides.bsky.social @freebroomrides.bsky.social · 4d

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 4d

This can happen to any of us right now under this regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 4d

www.instagram.com/share/reel/_... Trump has authorized the Qatar government to build an airforce training base for their airwing on US soil at Mountain Home AFB in Idaho.

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 5d

I'm curious about that as well. I don't think she is capable on her own.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 6d

I think we are now getting a feeling for how many members of this administration and of congress are named in those records.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 6d

This is what Nazis do. Repost this as much as possible so everyone sees what is really happening.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 6d

She is absolutely confident she will not be prosecuted for her crimes. We need to show her how wrong she is.

Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 6d

Bondi needs to be removed from office and charged with lying to the United States Senate!

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 6d

x.com/NickKnudsenU... Guess this ad hits a little too close to the belt for republicans.

Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 on X: "Holy sh*t Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems. Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago. SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE And follow the ad’s creator @_joejacobson_ so Elon can’t silence them! https://t.co/bFR3EsVrhz" / X

Holy sh*t Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems. Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago. SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE And follow the ad’s creator @_joejacobson_ so Elon can’t silence them! https://t.co/bFR3EsVrhz

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 7d

Here's the interview with Miller where he let's everyone know that they plan on making Trump a dictator.

CandyCoatedChaos @candycoatedchaos.bsky.social · 8d

Not Stephen Miller accidentally outting the regime in an interview. Let that "plenary authority" claim slip right out and then had to act like the audio cut out.

Sir! We heard you.. and the President does NOT have plenary authority.

NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 8d

This is very interesting. I have been there from the beginning. I ran the first TCP/IP networks in the government as ARPANet. The first browser was Mosaic, and we carried it around on a floppy disc. Now I program AI workloads. We are already there.

Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 8d

The internet was built on ads and subscriptions. Those were the dollars that paid for the entire enchilada. Now they are drying up. The venerable old internet of searching and browsing is disintegrating quickly.

Crossed Wires: End of browsing and the last website in the world

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 9d

This is what they do. Unfortunately, no different than our government is doing right now.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9d

The Chinese embassy in Manila hired a marketing firm that ran fake social media accounts praising China, undermining the Philippines’ security alliance with the US, and criticizing Western COVID vaccines, Reuters found reut.rs/437dUqn

How China waged an infowar against U.S. interests in the Philippines

The Chinese embassy in Manila hired a marketing firm that ran fake social media accounts praising China, undermining the Philippines’ security alliance with the U.S., and criticizing Western COVID vaccines, Reuters found.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 9d

James Madison's words on executive control of the military in 1787, as quoted by a Trump appointed judge.

NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 10d

www.threads.com/@bren.d.o/po... This is how the military really feels about the Trump regime. We never forget our oath to the Constitution.

B R E N. D. O (@bren.d.o) on Threads

This video is exploding.... The military is getting pissed. I expect the Trump regime to not last much longer based on how angry they are.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 10d

This is a direct violation of federal law. Stop accepting this as normal.

WIRED @wired.com · 10d

Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown

Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 15d

Trump just posted this on his TS, and this post breaks multiple federal laws. Exactly how many broken laws are needed for congress to impeach?

NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 15d

Another view of ICE trying to grab the food delivery guy on a bike. That's a pretty hardened criminal there.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 16d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 17d

The fact that this sim card farm was operational, shows just how badly we have allowed US cyber operations to degrade.

CNN @cnn.com · 17d

The US Secret Service this week revealed that a probe into a surge of swatting calls against high-ranking officials led investigators to a vast and stunning network of more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 SIM servers. https://cnn.it/3W9NsIP

Six key questions about the dismantled network capable of crippling New York’s cell system | CNN

CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller and CNN law enforcement analyst and former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow addressed six key questions related to the investigation...

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 17d

x.com/RonWyden/sta... The ICE facility in Portland Oregon as posted by the Mayor of Portland a few minutes ago. There is no one there. It's all a fabricated pretext for Trump to deploy troops.

Ron Wyden on X: "Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city. https://t.co/XV3NCir20G" / X

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city. https://t.co/XV3NCir20G

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 17d

open.substack.com/pub/thejackh... You really should read and share this. Your country and life are in the balance now.

Why Trump Chose Portland...And What He’s Really Preparing You For

Trump’s Portland move is the dress rehearsal for the day he calls it “martial law.”

open.substack.com

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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 17d

Understand, US troops firing on protesters exercising their constitutional rights is a violation of the UCMJ, and will result in action far bloodier than Kent State.