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Mike Masnick

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    See here's how to do a headline.

    fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

    Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government
    24,063 6,170
    Feb 13, 2025
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    I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known.

    techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/m...

    Missouri trans 'snitch form' down after people spammed it with the 'Bee Movie' script | TechCrunch
    Concerned citizens armed with fanfiction and the "Bee Movie" script took down a government-run website in Missouri.
    Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
    Note that anyone can email the snitch line, [email protected]. So if you’ve got any, uh, thoughts or information you’d like to share about this initiative, fire off that email today!
    12,762 3,449
    Jan 22, 2025
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    Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

    www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

    Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image 202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed.
    9,719 3,047
    Dec 23, 2025
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    Democracy is burning, and we need sites like Bluesky more than ever. And Senator Durbin wants to repeal 230, which would massively stifle the ability of sites like Bluesky to exist, while massively empowering X and Meta.

    Why?

    It seems that someone in his office doesn't understand 230.

    Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov
    It’s time to repeal Section 230. We must be able to take social media companies to court for addicting kids and enabling drug trafficking on their platforms.
    11,443 3,046
    Mar 6, 2025
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    Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

    Quoted post is unavailable
    11,253 2,891
    Jun 8, 2025
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    So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

    10,990 2,596
    Jan 15, 2026
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    If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

    Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
    Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
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    9,600 2,418
    Jan 11, 2026
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    Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

    Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com
    1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
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    6,835 2,242
    Jan 27, 2026
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    Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.

    Chart from the economist showing Elon's tweets based on time of day over time, showing him tweeting more and more and more frequently, especially after he took over Twitter. At first there's a little gap from around 4am to 10am, but it too gradually shrinks so that by now it looks like he tweets non-stop at any time of day. Also, a picture of a mind rotting from tweeters disease.
    Ed Zitron @edzitron.com
    Sorry, to be clear, it seems to tell you the date, but not the time. Hilarious.
    8,210 2,208
    Dec 5, 2024
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    As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

    Showing the accessibility settings for alt text in bluesky with two options: Require alt text before posting Display larger alt text badges Both are checked
    6,320 2,063
    Mar 30, 2025
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    I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this."

    Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?

    The New York Times @nytimes.com
    During the campaign, Donald Trump swore he had “nothing to do with” Project 2025. Now, as president-elect, Trump has filled his administration with people who have ties to the right-wing policy blueprint that would overhaul the federal government. nyti.ms/3BhAxxA
    Donald Trump is speaking during a campaign rally. A headline reads: "Trump Disavowed Project 2025 During the Campaign. Not Anymore." Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times.
    8,869 2,046
    Nov 30, 2024
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    For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

    Acyn @acyn.bsky.social
    Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
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    7,812 2,044
    Feb 6, 2026
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    The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.

    Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.

    Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
    Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
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    11,269 1,999
    Jul 20, 2025
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    Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.

    STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social
    We tariffed BIOT, Mike. BIOT. Diego fucking Garcia. We tarrifed our own military base.
    7,702 1,924
    Apr 2, 2025
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    And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do

    El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
    The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
    Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
    7,144 1,832
    Jul 2, 2025
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    I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

    5,597 1,754
    Jan 11, 2025
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    1. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law.
    2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc.
    3. Be public about how illegal all of this is
    4. Lay out a plan

    Quoted post is blocked
    7,654 1,730
    Feb 3, 2025
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    The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion."

    But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."

    yedois @yedois.bsky.social
    in addition to his "shylocks" comment, i can't imagine the media backlash if Biden said anything like from this screenshot - that he "hates Republicans" - and i'm also tired of having this "IMAGINE IF BIDEN!" thought experiment but it's just a constant reminder of the double standards
    6,317 1,643
    Jul 4, 2025
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    I mean, look, if Mamdani actually had invented time travel, went back in time and invented Twitter so it existed six years before it was created, to tweet about something that happened when he was 9 yeas old, with a picture of him at age 33, well... then maybe it's something to talk about...

    Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social
    Bruh
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    Jun 29, 2025
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    Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

    Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
    Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)
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    5,211 1,556
    Feb 19, 2026
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    Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

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    Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social
    Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
    5,340 1,468
    Sep 20, 2025
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    Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

    Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social
    It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
    Craig Shirley, a presidential historian and biographer of President Ronald Reagan, said Mr. Trump's experience was so searing that he did not believe the president would improperly restrain others' free speech, whatever his public exhortations. "We all especially know Biden used government to censor Trump, kicking him off many media platforms, a clear violation of the law," Mr. Shirley said. "As his own First Amendment rights were abridged, my guess is he's especially sensitive to anyone else seeing their First Amendment rights taken away."
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    Sep 21, 2025
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    Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...

    Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics
    When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably weren&#82…
    5,122 1,455
    Mar 11, 2025
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    ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.

    Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
    ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.
    ICE pepper sprayed 1 year old gil
    2,980 1,415
    Dec 15, 2025
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    28 million (and counting)

    Graphic showing bluesky has passed 28 million users
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    Jan 19, 2025