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youranoncentral.bsky.social
The president and vice president of the US meet in Alaska. A day of national embarrassment for the United States.
Putin a war criminal and child trafficker and rapist on the left and Trump a war criminal and child trafficker and rapist on the right.
August 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
"Mr Putin did you underestimate Ukraine?" "President Putin will you stop killing civilians?

Putin shrugs and smiles with Trump, Trump then quickly guides him away from reporters. #3E #standwithUkraine
August 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
“Putin would eat you for lunch.”

Today, exactly that happened.
August 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.

They graded it.

Bwahahaha.
May 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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muellershewrote.com
To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!
May 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter. While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims. Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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scalzi.com
And now, a cat break for your timeline.
Smudge, peaking out from between his paws.
April 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy.

Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.

All with an average donation of $21.

THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️
oliverhw.bsky.social Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben @oliverhw.bsky.social · Apr 15
News: AOC had her strongest ever quarter, raising over $9.5m from 266k individual donors for an average of just $21.

AOC doesn’t take a dollar from lobbyists or corporate PACS. Our top donor professions are teachers and nurses. 64% were first time contributors.
April 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
No tariffs on Russia. Huh?
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
Pushback works, part gazillion:

"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
popular.info/p/how-the-so...
How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
popular.info
March 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
46 Democrats voted WITH Republicans for the Laken Riley Act which allows the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants simply charged with non violent offenses.

Where is the Democratic Party with their outrage over the kidnapping of innocent men sent to die in an El Salvador prison?
April 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
Florida, you can pull off something miraculous today.

You too, Wisconsin.

VOTE.
April 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Whiskeyleaks?
March 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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profgalloway.com
The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Mar 26
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 4:37 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
March 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Very fun to explain the signal scandal to my 13 year old who truly understands the catastrophe of adding the wrong person to the group chat and absolutely fell out when I showed her the Mike Waltz emojis.
March 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek said that he is consulting with agency lawyers and the Justice Department as he threatens to shut down the agency in response to a court ruling blocking Elon Musk’s team from accessing sensitive taxpayer data.
March 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.

(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
March 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Mar 21
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
Have you watched this yet? If you can, make some time to watch it -- you'll be glad you did.
March 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
A federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked top officials at the Social Security Administration from granting Elon Musk and his team access to the agency’s data systems.
March 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM