Michael AA
@amicangelo.bsky.social
Trust and Safety professional in tech. Queer, leftist, vocal.
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Our government is now at the stage where we’re seizing electronic devices from US citizens returning from overseas, plugging those devices into something, and deporting some US citizens who don’t pass whatever they’re testing for.
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A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book.
It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life.
(Published Sept. 2022)
It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life.
(Published Sept. 2022)
What’s a Pig Butchering Scam? Here’s How to Avoid Falling Victim to One.
Thousands have lost huge sums after being lured into fraudulent online investment schemes by seemingly attractive strangers who strike up online conversations with them. Here’s a guide to spotting the...
www.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book.
It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life.
(Published Sept. 2022)
It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life.
(Published Sept. 2022)
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2026… the Year of Protest?
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
2026… the Year of Protest?
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
Now I understand why he thinks doctors set the baby aside after birth to ask whether the baby gets to live
Good lord
December 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Now I understand why he thinks doctors set the baby aside after birth to ask whether the baby gets to live
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“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Hey guys - as someone who developed pretty severe epilepsy in the last few years, this means a lot to me.
When I had my seizure at CVS, they thought I was OD’ing and were about to give me narcan when I “woke up”
It’s so important to know what to do 💜
When I had my seizure at CVS, they thought I was OD’ing and were about to give me narcan when I “woke up”
It’s so important to know what to do 💜
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hey guys - as someone who developed pretty severe epilepsy in the last few years, this means a lot to me.
When I had my seizure at CVS, they thought I was OD’ing and were about to give me narcan when I “woke up”
It’s so important to know what to do 💜
When I had my seizure at CVS, they thought I was OD’ing and were about to give me narcan when I “woke up”
It’s so important to know what to do 💜
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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NEW: Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ, issued a memo to shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments, ProPublica found.
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
NEW: Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ, issued a memo to shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments, ProPublica found.
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
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The Epstein Transparency Act is the law. Clearly, this DOJ is willing to defy it to protect Donald Trump and the rich and powerful.
The survivors deserve truth and justice. Release the files.
The survivors deserve truth and justice. Release the files.
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The Epstein Transparency Act is the law. Clearly, this DOJ is willing to defy it to protect Donald Trump and the rich and powerful.
The survivors deserve truth and justice. Release the files.
The survivors deserve truth and justice. Release the files.
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Bari Weiss doing what she was put there to do, ensure that CBS News is a friendly outlet to the regime and the oligarchs.
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Bari Weiss doing what she was put there to do, ensure that CBS News is a friendly outlet to the regime and the oligarchs.
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60 mins killed a story on Trump’s torture camps. Media capitulation to torture camps. That’s where we’re at.
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
60 mins killed a story on Trump’s torture camps. Media capitulation to torture camps. That’s where we’re at.
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So it seems obvious that everyone in the Trump Administration knows he's a pedo sex offender. But consider this: they're all okay with that.
That rot runs deep.
That rot runs deep.
December 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
So it seems obvious that everyone in the Trump Administration knows he's a pedo sex offender. But consider this: they're all okay with that.
That rot runs deep.
That rot runs deep.
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Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
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Perhaps the vice president should have considered utilizing the services of the vast law-enforcement apparatus at his disposal, rather than googling conspiracy theories on the Internet.
JD Vance: "I remember watching every video of the assassination looking for clues, trying to understand what happened. I tried to hide my friend and that terrible bullet hitting him, but I would try to look around. I stayed up all night for many nights in a row researching every conspiracy theory."
December 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Perhaps the vice president should have considered utilizing the services of the vast law-enforcement apparatus at his disposal, rather than googling conspiracy theories on the Internet.
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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SHAME, SHAME, SHAME! Under the fascist authoritarian Trump regime, America has devolved into a banana republic. So fearful is the media of the pedophile führer, CBS News cut an upcoming 60 Minutes report at the last minute on Trump's CECOT concentration camp in El Salvador. 😡
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME! Under the fascist authoritarian Trump regime, America has devolved into a banana republic. So fearful is the media of the pedophile führer, CBS News cut an upcoming 60 Minutes report at the last minute on Trump's CECOT concentration camp in El Salvador. 😡
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This is the trailer Bari Weiss' CBS has apparently scrubbed from the internet.
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is the trailer Bari Weiss' CBS has apparently scrubbed from the internet.
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So was this a direct order from Trump? Or just Bari Weiss doing what she was hired to do?
“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air
’60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Trump Deportees Sent to El Salvador Megaprison 2 Hours Before Airtime
"60 Minutes" abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air.
ca.news.yahoo.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
So was this a direct order from Trump? Or just Bari Weiss doing what she was hired to do?
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genuinely funny that bari weiss is an out and out nazi
lmao
"One of Ms. Weiss’s suggestions was to include an interview with Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff...In her note, Ms. Alfonsi said that her team had requested comment from the White House, the State Department, and [DHS]."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"One of Ms. Weiss’s suggestions was to include an interview with Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff...In her note, Ms. Alfonsi said that her team had requested comment from the White House, the State Department, and [DHS]."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
genuinely funny that bari weiss is an out and out nazi
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A huge scandal.
Bari Weiss has destroyed the credibility of @cbsnews.com in record time.
It’s almost impressive.
Almost.
Bari Weiss has destroyed the credibility of @cbsnews.com in record time.
It’s almost impressive.
Almost.
“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note “It is factually correct.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
A huge scandal.
Bari Weiss has destroyed the credibility of @cbsnews.com in record time.
It’s almost impressive.
Almost.
Bari Weiss has destroyed the credibility of @cbsnews.com in record time.
It’s almost impressive.
Almost.