Andz
@andz.bsky.social
Dad. Too multidisciplinary engineer. Central Jersey exists. He/him.
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The Kavanaugh arrest is the new Kavanaugh stop.
“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The Kavanaugh arrest is the new Kavanaugh stop.
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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Cuellar has voted with the Republicans on everything and it is an absolute embarrassment to the Democratic Party that they restored him to his leadership role
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Cuellar has voted with the Republicans on everything and it is an absolute embarrassment to the Democratic Party that they restored him to his leadership role
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Trump's DOJ has been ordered to embark on a sweeping crackdown on "left-wing domestic terrorism." Civil liberties experts warn it could lead to a level of politicized FBI surveillance of Americans not seen since the era of J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO.
Our story today: wapo.st/3L9lpr4 (gift link)
Our story today: wapo.st/3L9lpr4 (gift link)
Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “Antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.
wapo.st
December 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Trump's DOJ has been ordered to embark on a sweeping crackdown on "left-wing domestic terrorism." Civil liberties experts warn it could lead to a level of politicized FBI surveillance of Americans not seen since the era of J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO.
Our story today: wapo.st/3L9lpr4 (gift link)
Our story today: wapo.st/3L9lpr4 (gift link)
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Fuck any un-American motherfucker who cannot say with pride “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Leavitt: "Refugee admissions into the country right now are essentially at 0, with the exception of Afrikaners fleeing persecution in South Africa."
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fuck any un-American motherfucker who cannot say with pride “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Great work Olivia!
December 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Great work Olivia!
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
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"Among those granted clemency was Jared Wise, a former FBI agent himself. According to bodycam footage submitted in court, Wise urged rioters to kill police during the Capitol siege. Wise now serves in the Trump administration."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
They prosecuted the Capitol rioters. Now the rioters and the DOJ are after them.
After Trump’s mass pardons of the U.S. Capitol rioters, some have gained influence inside the Justice Department. The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting da...
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"Among those granted clemency was Jared Wise, a former FBI agent himself. According to bodycam footage submitted in court, Wise urged rioters to kill police during the Capitol siege. Wise now serves in the Trump administration."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Do you want to feel incandescently angry? Read coverage of Biden’s economic addresses, where he would truthfully relay great progress with accurate numbers, and it would get covered as a pack of lies. Then look at what the current guy does, who is covered the same way edition.cnn.com/2023/01/28/p...
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Do you want to feel incandescently angry? Read coverage of Biden’s economic addresses, where he would truthfully relay great progress with accurate numbers, and it would get covered as a pack of lies. Then look at what the current guy does, who is covered the same way edition.cnn.com/2023/01/28/p...
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This is such a wild take and I say that as a white guy who reaps clear (and unfair) benefits from my race and gender in the work that I do.
You know how many times someone’s threatened to rape me because I posted something they didn’t like? Not once! You know how often that happens to women? A lot!
You know how many times someone’s threatened to rape me because I posted something they didn’t like? Not once! You know how often that happens to women? A lot!
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is such a wild take and I say that as a white guy who reaps clear (and unfair) benefits from my race and gender in the work that I do.
You know how many times someone’s threatened to rape me because I posted something they didn’t like? Not once! You know how often that happens to women? A lot!
You know how many times someone’s threatened to rape me because I posted something they didn’t like? Not once! You know how often that happens to women? A lot!
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one reason we have to bully the yglesiases of the world harder is because there are a bunch of people whose sole reading consists of Posts who are angrily reposting this demanding dem electeds stop being matt yglesias on this issue
New Quinnipiac poll:
57% favor path to legalization for undocs vs 35% who back deporting them
Trump underwater on immigration (44-54) and on deportations (42-55)
Meanwhile DHS's Twitter feed is a white nationalist sewer pit and Gregory Bovino is swaggering around like an occupying general
57% favor path to legalization for undocs vs 35% who back deporting them
Trump underwater on immigration (44-54) and on deportations (42-55)
Meanwhile DHS's Twitter feed is a white nationalist sewer pit and Gregory Bovino is swaggering around like an occupying general
December 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
one reason we have to bully the yglesiases of the world harder is because there are a bunch of people whose sole reading consists of Posts who are angrily reposting this demanding dem electeds stop being matt yglesias on this issue
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The economy, at the least the employment market, has snapped back to 2016 in the span of nine months because the president wanted to cosplay as William McKinley for his Make a Wish celebration. Inspirational
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The economy, at the least the employment market, has snapped back to 2016 in the span of nine months because the president wanted to cosplay as William McKinley for his Make a Wish celebration. Inspirational
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Among the many things one could say about this:
Journalists will not—and steadfastly refuse to—write similar stories about queer kids who were rejected by their families and forced into poverty and homelessness. The children who were harmed never get sympathy in these stories.
It’s telling.
Journalists will not—and steadfastly refuse to—write similar stories about queer kids who were rejected by their families and forced into poverty and homelessness. The children who were harmed never get sympathy in these stories.
It’s telling.
This article isn't political, but you can tell exactly who these people voted for, even if the estrangement wasn't about politics.
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Among the many things one could say about this:
Journalists will not—and steadfastly refuse to—write similar stories about queer kids who were rejected by their families and forced into poverty and homelessness. The children who were harmed never get sympathy in these stories.
It’s telling.
Journalists will not—and steadfastly refuse to—write similar stories about queer kids who were rejected by their families and forced into poverty and homelessness. The children who were harmed never get sympathy in these stories.
It’s telling.
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These professions have to misleading impression of scale too. One top 5%er can write articles that millions read. But you actually need the other 95% to teach classes, to attend the county board of supervisors, to grind out the midrange pubs that constitute a body of literature.
One of the worst developments of the last ~20 years has been that in certain professions, 5% are superstars and 95% eat cat food for dinner.
Society depends on a broad and comfortable middle path.
Society depends on a broad and comfortable middle path.
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
These professions have to misleading impression of scale too. One top 5%er can write articles that millions read. But you actually need the other 95% to teach classes, to attend the county board of supervisors, to grind out the midrange pubs that constitute a body of literature.
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Spoke with @nickturse.bsky.social.
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law based on his own say so. That prerogative might be wielded elsewhere — including inside the US.”
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law based on his own say so. That prerogative might be wielded elsewhere — including inside the US.”
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
theintercept.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Spoke with @nickturse.bsky.social.
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law based on his own say so. That prerogative might be wielded elsewhere — including inside the US.”
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law based on his own say so. That prerogative might be wielded elsewhere — including inside the US.”
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
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I'm arguing against interest here as someone who makes his living producing various kinds of video content, but I believe if you want to think clearly about something, the written word is much more valuable than video content is.
Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.
Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.
December 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I'm arguing against interest here as someone who makes his living producing various kinds of video content, but I believe if you want to think clearly about something, the written word is much more valuable than video content is.
Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.
Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.
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New from me!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
How We Found the Man Behind Two Deepfake Porn Sites
Business documents, website code and leaked data all led us back to one person profiting off non-consensual sexual imagery of women.
www.bellingcat.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New from me!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
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Unbelievable - you literally wire money to some unspecified account. I assume this is so Trump can treat it as a slush fund he can deploy unconstrained by Congress (in violation of the Constitution).
December 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Unbelievable - you literally wire money to some unspecified account. I assume this is so Trump can treat it as a slush fund he can deploy unconstrained by Congress (in violation of the Constitution).
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Hey Rand, how about if all 340 million Americans banded together into a larger group? Then we’d have even more negotiating power!
Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey Rand, how about if all 340 million Americans banded together into a larger group? Then we’d have even more negotiating power!
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mass shooting are dramatic and horrific evidence of our desperate need for gun control. they're really only the tip of the iceberg though.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
December 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
mass shooting are dramatic and horrific evidence of our desperate need for gun control. they're really only the tip of the iceberg though.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
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Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
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i have to drunk drive over the speed limit in order to get to my job: defusing the kind of nuclear bomb which can only be deactivated by the n-word
Just say ‘I like driving over the speed limit’ why debase yourself like this
December 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
i have to drunk drive over the speed limit in order to get to my job: defusing the kind of nuclear bomb which can only be deactivated by the n-word
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It drives me crazy that our Democratic state representatives like @andrewzwicker.bsky.social are advancing legislation to significantly restrict the use of low-speed e-bikes while the real risk to safety on New Jersey roads is always, always cars.
December 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It drives me crazy that our Democratic state representatives like @andrewzwicker.bsky.social are advancing legislation to significantly restrict the use of low-speed e-bikes while the real risk to safety on New Jersey roads is always, always cars.
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This guy must have been preparing answers for the inevitable “your grandpa was the country’s most famous fascist” question and then the boss is like “it’s why we wanted to hire you”
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This guy must have been preparing answers for the inevitable “your grandpa was the country’s most famous fascist” question and then the boss is like “it’s why we wanted to hire you”