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I live in a small house with a giant dog.
Hated Elon Musk since before it was cool.
Also: burritos 🌯
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BREAKING NEWS: In a shocking statement, Karoline Leavitt confirms the Trump Administration is taking steps on a pathway to deport AMERICAN CITIZENS to El Salvador. This is absolutely insane.
April 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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March 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Either you find this disgusting, or you are disgusting. There is no in between.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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This hasn’t aged well.
March 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
 
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
Negligently disclosing national defense information is illegal — and it doesn't have to be classified
The Espionage Act, the law that often has been used in criminal cases involving leaks or mishandling of classified information, contains a provision making it
www.nbcnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Rumeysa Ozturk, just kidnapped by masked secret police, co-authored this op-ed in The Tufts Daily that was published exactly one year ago. This is and must be protected activity.

www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
www.tuftsdaily.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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How incredible is this, the first pollinating #frog known to #science. It feeds on the fruit and nectar and gets covered in sticky pollen grains, how amazing is that! #nature will never stop to amaze us... #biodiversity #worldfrogday

bsky.app/profile/scie...
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.

Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy
March 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.
March 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Then this sodden incompetent should be fired. Full stop.
Hegseth: The DOD will be merit based and colorblind. You will be judged on how good you are at your job. Full stop.
March 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Good lord what a bunch of liars and incompetents. Also, as an aside. who sets their disappearing messages to 4 weeks if they want to avoid accountability? Also, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social is a badass.
March 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.
March 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Space Force continues to monitor Chinese satellites as they practice maneuvers best described as dog fighting.
Add to it Russia's nesting doll satellite tech & it becomes clear that the long-held US advantage in space is diminishing.
Let's focus on DEI & closing education because that'll help.
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Let’s make something clear: The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
SignalGate Isn't About Signal
The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
www.wired.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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where are the free speech warriors now bsky.app/profile/grav...
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.
Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...
March 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where First Amendment lawyers find themselves compelled to advise people that they have no First Amendment rights.
I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping very well for *checks notes* the rest of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
March 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR
Federal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed....
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Just to be clear, a big reason @altssa.altgov.info and I are here is because it's painfully obvious to employees that SSA is being sabotaged. They want it to break so they can kill it and blame us.

We need all your help to spread the word far and wide so these people can't escape responsibility.
March 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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This is an embarrassment for Yale. It’s a grime time and things are going to keep getting grimmer if universities jump at shadows from fear of Trumpism.

If you teach at Yale I sure hope ChatGPT doesn’t say you kidnapped the Lindbergh baby or something.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
Yale Suspends Scholar After A.I.-Powered News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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These Senators are on the fence about voting NO on the CR:

Elissa Slotkin (MI)
Gary Peters (MI)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jon Ossoff (GA)
John Hickenlooper (CO)
Michael Bennett (CO)
Mark Kelly (AZ)
Peter Welch (VT)
Mark Warner (VA)
Time Kaine (VA)

Call (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM