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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

If Trump is going back to the well with the stolen election lies and mail-in ballot nonsense maybe now is a good time to remind everyone there was a whole series of hearings and witness interviews with his own people about this?

August 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

Kara Swisher is a cretinous, deceitful tech booster attempting to rewrite history, pretending that she didn't deliberately elevate tech executives like Elon Musk right up until the last minute. A truly grotesque figure

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

What is happening is shocking, in a way. But if anyone is not surprised, it’s tech reporters who saw, over the past decade, what these people were becoming. Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms. They denigrate media, science, activism, and culture, and spend their time bellyaching about the “woke-mind virus” and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Those programs, despite their occasional annoyances, were directionally correct. As I often point out, the opposite of woke is asleep; the opposite of DEI is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion. That’s just the way an increasing number of techies want it and, with Trump and Musk at the wheel, the goal toward which they are now reengineering our country.

March 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

Also note that in Swisher's piece attacking tech executives she is also boosting the AI narrative. Scummy stuff! A new Cambrian age my asshole, utterly stupid

For tech leaders at this moment, the digital world they rule has become not enough. Leaders, in fact, is the wrong word to use now. Titans is more like it, as many have cozied up to Trump in order to dominate this world as we enter the next Cambrian explosion in technology, with the development of advanced AI.

March 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

we tank tesla stock
then his website dies
The Plan.

March 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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August J. Pollak

@augustjpollak.bsky.social

There is no administration in modern history that has so vehemently and rapidly expressed its disdain for veterans and if Democrats were doing even a fraction of this every newspaper in the country would be calling for resignations

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Mar 10

1. EXCLUSIVE

The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them

As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles

It is an unethical and likely illegal practice

Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles

As part of the Trump administration's frenzied push to end remote work arrangements for federal government workers, the Veterans Administration (VA) is forcing therapists to provide mental health coun...

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March 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Molly White

@molly.wiki

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine

identifying the lackeys: illegal

FearNonelnc @RayInsideOut. Here's a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasury payment system. Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran

Elon Musk @elonmusk. You have committed a crime.

Same reply by Musk, but showing the original post was removed as a violation of Twitter rules

February 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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Michele/Meidas Fan

@michelemanziano.bsky.social

January 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

Hospitals (and anyone else), this is why you shouldn't act preemptively and weakly like this. You just become his pawn.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 3

NEW: The Trump administration is now bragging about hospitals that are preemptively pausing, reviewing, or stopping gender-affirming medical care for those under 19 following Trump's anti-trans executive order relating to health care, asserting, "Promises made, promises kept."

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
02/03/25
President Trump is Delivering on His Commitment to Protect our Kids
Last week, President Donald J. Trump took executive action to protect American children from irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation.
It’s already having its intended effect — preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex. Hospitals around the country are taking action to downsize or eliminate their so- called “gender-affirming care” programs:
• NEW YORK: NYU Langone Health has started canceling appointments for so-called “gender-affirming care” involving minors. They canceled appointments for “two 12- year-olds who had been scheduled to receive implants that dispense puberty- blocking medication.”

• COLORADO: Denver Health announced it would stop performing sex change surgeries on minor children, while UCHealth said it is ending so-called “gender- affirming care” for all minors.

• VIRGINIA: VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond
have “suspended” providing transgender-related medication and surgeries for minors, while UVA Health has “suspended” all transgender-related services for minors.
• WASHINGTON, D.C.: Children’s National Hospital has “paused” prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapies for minors, while Northwest Washington Hospital has done the same.
• ILLINOIS: Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is “reviewing” their transgender-related services for minors.
• PENNSYLVANIA: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is “closely reviewing” the transgender-related services they provide for minors.
President Trump will always protect American children.
Promises made, promises kept – again.
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February 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Yuletide and Old Lace

@corgiseveryhour.bsky.social

I unfortunately can not like this post due to how bad doxxing is. No one should do anything with information like this. Reposting to show what kind of information is bad to repost.

February 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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Katelyn Burns

@katelynburns.com

Whenever I explain that almost 95% of the disinformation that gets laundered through mainstream media comes from 10 people who are all in the same group chat together, people look at me like I'm a conspiracy theorist.

But it's true.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Dec 6

There's a coordinated smear job against pediatrician and USPATH president, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy , involving the biggest names on the anti-trans side, JK Rowling, Billboard Chris, Elon Musk, Jesse Singal, and Azeen Ghorayshi.

It started in October and today is a further continuation of that.

Screenshot of JK Rowling tweet.

This, by @jessesingal, should be read by every single person arguing that minors aren't being rushed or pushed into transition, that gender doctors know exactly what they're doing, and that those with questions must be bigots driven by hatred.

December 6, 2024 at 5:11 PM

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Kristi Yamaguccimane

@wapplehouse.bsky.social

I’ll get banned for posting that CEO getting got set to Freebird, right?

December 4, 2024 at 7:47 PM

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skáld

@danglinghemmie.bsky.social

They're saying, "CEO Flop's not a show. It's just hours and hours of footage of real CEOs getting shot and dying outside of their annual investor meetings. There's no explanation. Just body after body getting filled with lead and hitting the pavement."

December 4, 2024 at 8:03 PM

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Jeffrey Simons

@math4humans.bsky.social

You realize this still doesn't support your premise? Nor does it dismiss mine?

December 2, 2024 at 6:48 PM

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Jacqueline Sweet

@jsweetli.bsky.social

Women are the canaries in the coal mine of how bad Twitter is now. It’s not just about echo chamber blah blah. It’s unsafe— when huge accounts like this guy w/ 400k followers (Fox contributor too) single out a random woman minding her business so mobs can attack her. And no block feature!

December 3, 2024 at 1:58 PM

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happybeachvibes.bsky.social

@happybeachvibes.bsky.social

100% if people would literally #BoycottTesla his stock price would crater, I’m sick of all these young Democrats buying new Teslas, at this point Trump’s policies aren’t going to hurt us except he’ll crater our 401K once again, young ppl have the most to lose….wise up

December 2, 2024 at 5:01 PM