Saymwah
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Saymwah
@c-monster70.bsky.social
Don’t panic. (They want us to panic.)
“Huh, there’s sure a lotta Wagner and Strauss this season…”
Trump announced today that he's installing himself as head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and dismissing several of its board members.
Trump says he'll remove Kennedy Center board members, name himself chair
Trump had a tense relationship with the art institution in his first term.
www.axios.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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On Monday, Trump fired Travis LeBlanc and every other non-Republican member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—a bipartisan watchdog meant to prevent government surveillance abuse.

Now, the board has been effectively gutted.
President Trump fired me. Now it will be easier for the government to spy on Americans | Travis LeBlanc
These partisan witch-hunts and firings need to stop
buff.ly
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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1. BREAKING

Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.
Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees
The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates
www.muskwatch.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)
August 20, 2023 at 1:55 AM
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in retrospect which do you think is the graver, more unforgivable sin: leaking the Dobbs opinion or building an entire life atop a mountain of theft and fraud
January 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM