Sean Yoda Rouse
@seanyodarouse.bsky.social
A married UC Berkeley alum who enjoys Star Wars, Disney, California (the state AND the Golden Bears), Craft Beer, and other stuff. Go Bears
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A bunch of FBI agents took a knee during a George Floyd protest in 2020. Their actions were reviewed and they were cleared of wrongdoing.
Kash Patel fired them anyway saying they contributed to the “political weaponization of government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Kash Patel fired them anyway saying they contributed to the “political weaponization of government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
A Dozen F.B.I. Agents Sue Patel After Being Fired Over Kneeling at Protest
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A bunch of FBI agents took a knee during a George Floyd protest in 2020. Their actions were reviewed and they were cleared of wrongdoing.
Kash Patel fired them anyway saying they contributed to the “political weaponization of government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Kash Patel fired them anyway saying they contributed to the “political weaponization of government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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So glad @freepress.bsky.social did the work to document a timeline of Trump Administration attacks on speech.
I bet this one was really hard to finalize because new examples kept coming in every damned day, and maybe every hour or minute.
www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
I bet this one was really hard to finalize because new examples kept coming in every damned day, and maybe every hour or minute.
www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance
This Free Press report examines the Trump administration’s hostile relationship with dissent and free expression in 2025. It analyzes how Trump and his political enablers have sought to undermine and ...
www.freepress.net
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
So glad @freepress.bsky.social did the work to document a timeline of Trump Administration attacks on speech.
I bet this one was really hard to finalize because new examples kept coming in every damned day, and maybe every hour or minute.
www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
I bet this one was really hard to finalize because new examples kept coming in every damned day, and maybe every hour or minute.
www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
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What a corrupt world 😅
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
What a corrupt world 😅
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It bothers me that America has elected people so indecent that this couldn't even be expected to be taken seriously by the administration of crypto scams and Tate Brothers support.
cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
December 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It bothers me that America has elected people so indecent that this couldn't even be expected to be taken seriously by the administration of crypto scams and Tate Brothers support.
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"Arcade Source" from episode 6 of the Bad Batch is a pensive, downtempo, instrumental version of "Dejarik Game Source" (aka "White Boots"), a @kinermusic.bsky.social song about Imperial occupation. Different interpretations of the same tune, as with "Niamos", lend depth to the world.
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Arcade Source" from episode 6 of the Bad Batch is a pensive, downtempo, instrumental version of "Dejarik Game Source" (aka "White Boots"), a @kinermusic.bsky.social song about Imperial occupation. Different interpretations of the same tune, as with "Niamos", lend depth to the world.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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Definitely worth reading.
I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Definitely worth reading.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released 46 years ago today.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released 46 years ago today.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
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NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
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"Rahmanullah Lakanwal was reported to feel that the CIA had abandoned him once he arrived in the United States, so he might well have become radicalized, but not in the familiar way; not by Islamists but by the actions of the Trump administration."
For Trump, Even the National Guard Shooting Is About Immigration
And he won’t let the facts get in the way of his agenda.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Rahmanullah Lakanwal was reported to feel that the CIA had abandoned him once he arrived in the United States, so he might well have become radicalized, but not in the familiar way; not by Islamists but by the actions of the Trump administration."
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Some of the hulking and iconic doughnut drive-thrus still exist today.
Once a Calif. staple, LA's giant rooftop doughnuts are disappearing
Some of the hulking and iconic doughnut drive-thrus still exist today.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Some of the hulking and iconic doughnut drive-thrus still exist today.
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MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Breaking on MS NOW: The Signalgate report contradicts Pete Hegseth's claims he did nothing wrong. It shows he "violated policy by using a non-approved device," a source who read the report says.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
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Emphatically this.
Materially and directly harming a group of people and expecting them to be cool with it is madness at best and white supremacy at worst.
Being an ally means getting hit with the same blows we do *and standing strong*. Running means you were never an ally, just an opportunist.
Materially and directly harming a group of people and expecting them to be cool with it is madness at best and white supremacy at worst.
Being an ally means getting hit with the same blows we do *and standing strong*. Running means you were never an ally, just an opportunist.
You have the choice to sacrifice trans people. Perhaps it will save you.
But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.
You made your choice.
But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.
You made your choice.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Emphatically this.
Materially and directly harming a group of people and expecting them to be cool with it is madness at best and white supremacy at worst.
Being an ally means getting hit with the same blows we do *and standing strong*. Running means you were never an ally, just an opportunist.
Materially and directly harming a group of people and expecting them to be cool with it is madness at best and white supremacy at worst.
Being an ally means getting hit with the same blows we do *and standing strong*. Running means you were never an ally, just an opportunist.
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Abandoned allies turn into enemies.
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work newrepublic.com/post/203784/... via @newrepublic.com
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work
The National Guard shooting suspect felt abandoned by the CIA after working together for so long, his fellow unit member said.
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Abandoned allies turn into enemies.
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is it a good idea to
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
is it a good idea to
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
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I filed a comment with the USPTO today about their attempt to make it way harder to invalidate bogus patents.
Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted…
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted…
Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted by mistake. Patent tolls and other abusers of the patent system have been screaming about this system ever since it started actually helping stop the flood of patent trolling over the last decade and a half.
www.techdirt.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I filed a comment with the USPTO today about their attempt to make it way harder to invalidate bogus patents.
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George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
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retiring on 1.5 million at 37 after earning $390k/yr is not going to end well, other factors aside
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
retiring on 1.5 million at 37 after earning $390k/yr is not going to end well, other factors aside
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Not getting a Trump pardon gotta feel almost as bad as being one of the white women that wasn't invited to be a part of that Zoom call at this point
Trump frees New York private equity executive who defrauded victims of $1.6B
Trump frees New York private equity executive who defrauded victims of $1.6B
Trump frees New York private equity executive who defrauded victims of $1.6B
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Not getting a Trump pardon gotta feel almost as bad as being one of the white women that wasn't invited to be a part of that Zoom call at this point
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Is this free markets or personal liberties? Someone help me out.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Is this free markets or personal liberties? Someone help me out.
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I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...