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Wes Miller

@getwired.com

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EX-Microsoft - Research analyst at Directions on Microsoft covering identity, security, management, & Microsoft licensing. Blog: http://getwired.com

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · Nov 6

Just deactivated my Twitter account, where I was also user @getwired. When it goes, it goes.

I’m done contributing to Elon’s harm he has done and will continue to do to this country.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 50m

everybody just stay cool

An upsetting number of antifa members have streamed forth from a small car, to be confronted with actual clowns. (Photo by Fabian Bimmer, via the AP.)

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 10h

Germany's justice ministry held firm and killed EU chat control (for now):

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

Admirably concise and direct. German in the best possible way.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 10h

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Authoritarian power needs fear to function.

It thrives on intimidation, silence and conformity.

But Froggie breaks all of that.

He dances. He Humps. He laughs.

And the state doesn’t know what to do.

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 1h

Very few journalists are financially independent like Marisa is. A lot more could be but it takes a shitload of courage on the reporting side and a shitload of shameless promotion on the marketing side and not many are up for the task.

We must back the ones who are with cash.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1h

Asking artists for use permission would kill Limewire

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

We are currently clean on OPSEC

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 5h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Another Kavanaugh stop.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 5h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 4h

More context for this, since I realized people might not recognize his name. This is this professor. I'm seriously crossing my fingers that it's just some internet assholes social engineering a fraud alert on his tickets and not something much more serious given that "roundtable" that happened today

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2h

Mission? Give me a break.

CNN @cnn.com · 2h

JUST IN: National Guard troops have started their mission in the greater Chicago area, an official says, as court showdowns over deployments loom. https://cnn.it/4q2CJ0s

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 3h

I hate AI.
And yet…

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 3h

The Washington Post is rapidly degrading to the point that it has about the same credibility as tabloid journalism did when I was growing up.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.