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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1h

EFF and 20 other organizations urge Congress: General counsels play too important of a role in the intelligence community to be appointed unilaterally. Maintain Senate confirmation and accountability for these roles. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF and Other Organizations: Keep Key Intelligence Positions Senate

In a joint letter to the ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, EFF has joined with 20 other organizations, including the ACLU, Brennan Center, CDT, Asian Americans

www.eff.org

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 3h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

The Qatari Airbase deal is going to be a harsh lesson to Donald on the downside of stoking the fires of xenophobia and hatred of Muslims with MAGA bigots.

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uncletantra.bsky.social @uncletantra.bsky.social · 2h

He already wears high heels. That's how a 6' person keeps pretending to be 6'3".

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957

To Who
J. Alastair Frisby
Who
Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published
And
Advised me
To
Get a job selling jellied eels
SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY

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uncletantra.bsky.social @uncletantra.bsky.social · 3h

So then you're left with Mike Johnson as President. This is my point. No one is fucking planning ahead. They're just taking a series of steps that are EXACTLY what the framers of Project 2025 *want* them to take.

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uncletantra.bsky.social @uncletantra.bsky.social · 3h

Don't forget, when clamoring to remove Trump via the 25th Amendment, that JB Vance was Thiel's *hand-picked* choice for President. They just needed Trump to win the election, but will be happy to see him go so that Vance can execute their plans more quickly.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kurt...

Is MTG Showing The End of MAGA? w/ Ali Vitali

YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast

www.youtube.com

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uncletantra.bsky.social @uncletantra.bsky.social · 3h

Don't trust a word MTG says. About anything.

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Fight for right @bluewind55.bsky.social · 5h

Bondi IS LYING!!! Claiming over 500 arrested in Memphis since Wednesday!! WHERE are they housing these arrests? I HAPPEN TO KNOW there's NO facility in Memphis or nearby that can hold that many!! AND NOT ENOUGH personnel to handle the flow...IN A FEW DAYS!! I KNOW OUR JAILS ARE ALREADY OVERCROWDED!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19h

I started my legal career undefeated at trial for 2 years

Lindsey Halligan will start her career as a prosecutor 0-2, and I am sure any other former trial attorney would say exactly the same thing

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uncletantra.bsky.social @uncletantra.bsky.social · 6h

This should be the real "Prove that you're a human" test on the Internet. AIs *can't* do this. That's why they "hallucinate" and make up answers.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

Normalise admitting you don't know enough about a subject to form an opinion of it.

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uncletantra.bsky.social @uncletantra.bsky.social · 6h

And he's working to top that statistic this time around.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 23h

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💙Christine Slemmer💙 @slem63.bsky.social · 15h

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 9h

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 16h

Way to go Meat Head!!! Woohoo!!

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 1d

One indicator you’re not Nobel Peace Prize material is if the country which hosts the totally independent Nobel committee believes you’re gonna retaliate against them because you didn’t win.

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uncletantra.bsky.social @uncletantra.bsky.social · 6h

Good for her, and I'd vote for her if I lived there, but I have a question. I searched through the whole ad looking to find out what party she represents, and all I could find was one tiny mention at the bottom, in small text. Is this a state law, or is it what Democrats have to do these days?

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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 19h

Let's give her all the love We can, y'all.

Mikie Sherrill for Governor

U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Navy helicopter pilot, former federal prosecutor, wife, and mother of four kids – Mikie Sherrill is running for governor to make life easier and more affordable for Garden...

www.mikiesherrill.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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uncletantra.bsky.social @uncletantra.bsky.social · 6h

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

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 · 21h

"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

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