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numb.comfortab.ly
Good. mashable.com/article/elon...
Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months
Millions of people in France and Germany have left X, according to X itself.
mashable.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
"The chill is everywhere because the message is coming from the top."

A summary of Orbanization in major media circles from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social. His newsletter, Status, is well read in the media industry, which he describes as "under siege." www.status.news/p/donald-tru... [paywall likely]
Oliver Darcy writes this in his daily newsletter called Status. Donald Trump’s return to the White House hasn’t just reshaped the political landscape—it’s placed the media industry under siege. In just his first 100 days back in office, the administration has waged a multi-front campaign to discredit, defund, and disempower the press. They’ve seized control of the press pool from the White House Correspondents’ Association, publicly smeared journalists, and attempted to kneecap public media funding. They've barred The Associated Press from official White House events, sidelined legacy outlets at the Pentagon in favor of pro-MAGA mouthpieces, and made clear that basic access is now partisan and conditional. At the Federal Communications Commission, Trump-appointed chair Brendan Carr has taken up the fight directly—openly targeting D.E.I. programs and attacking newsrooms for their reporting, all while letting Rupert Murdoch skate. Meanwhile, Carr has held up approval for Paramount Global’s merger with Skydance Media as Trump pressures Shari Redstone to settle his frivolous lawsuit against "60 Minutes." Oh, and the tariffs have given way to tremendous economic uncertainty, which will very likely decrease advertising revenue and slow subscription growth. Throughout it all, industry leaders—from Disney’s Bob Iger to Warner Bros. Discovery's David Zaslav to Paramount’s Redstone—have largely stayed silent or conciliatory. Several companies have capitulated to pressure, prompting concern that the business side of media may no longer be willing to defend its editorial backbone.
April 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
52% of Americans agree that Trump is a “dangerous dictator”—but this survey only ran through last month.

I’d imagine the number would be even higher if the survey was more recent. The vast majority of Americans hate Trump’s second term.
May 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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newsguy.bsky.social
WSJ - Tesla's board has opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk. www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Exclusive | Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk
With profits and the stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at the company.
www.wsj.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Container bookings from China to the United States are nosediving.

@financialtimes.com
(via Kevin Gordon)
April 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
The fact that we are also making lists of Jewish professors proves the harmlessness of our registry of autistic children.

by Linda McMahon and RFK Jr.
April 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
DOGE will absolutely (on lost tax revenues alone) cost more money than any claimed savings
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 25
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'...

"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Whew! Sen Chuck Grassley’s town hall should be a wake-up call for Trump & Republicans.

Voters want Kilmar García brought home — and they’re pissed Trump’s thumbing his nose at a Supreme Court ruling. This isn’t “tough on crime,” it’s lawless, un-American trash — and folks know it.

This is Iowa!
April 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The DC attorney nominee has appeared dozens of times on Russian state media
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times
Trump nominee Ed Martin’s 100-plus appearances on Russian state-directed media RT and Sputnik from 2016 to 2024 alarm some former national security officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
Listen to Dr. Rubin, not RFKjr's propaganda and manipulation.
www.youtube.com/shorts/ySVcN...
Autism is not a disease. #autism #doctor #shorts
YouTube video by Dr. Zachary Rubin
www.youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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jeffjarvis.bsky.social
The Bezos #BrokenPost drives out its good & principled columnists & hires the bilious Mitch Daniels to attack education. Should we file this under personal liberties or free markets?
Universities lament Trump’s attacks. How about doing some atoning, too?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Universities lament Trump’s attacks. How about doing some atoning, too?
Higher education failed to deliver value: Tuition soared while rigor and quality sagged.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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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therickwilson.bsky.social
Deporting America citizens to a foreign gulag seems…dictatory.
April 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
We haven’t reached bottom yet.

Because there is no bottom to his moral depravity.
April 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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lincolnproject.us
Donald Trump is deporting legal US residents to a foreign gulag, and he has stated publicly that he is moving on to citizens next. This is a Constitutional crisis. Will a single Republican stand up for our Constitution?
April 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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judgeluttig.bsky.social
On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador
April 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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newrepublic.com
Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”
Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags
His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.
newrepublic.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
www.democracydocket.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed

Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?
April 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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calltoactivism.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam
April 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Asking for, um, a country?
April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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fangirljeanne.bsky.social
I’m loving Chinese manufacturers airing luxury brand’s dirty laundry on TikTok.

[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRMTmyP/ ]
April 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM