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    The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

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    Jan 27, 2025
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    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
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    Feb 3, 2025
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    If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

    ​Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdown​Trump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
    The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
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    Jan 16, 2026
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    every damn time

    Tweet by Molly White @molly0xFFF it's always fascinating to watch grown adults discover the concept of public libraries for the first time Quoted tweet by Ken Herman @kherman Ponderable? And do free people expect to read every book they want to read for free (at public expense)? After all, many people who write and produce the books do expect a return on their effort and investment. Just a thought. Tweet thread: Molly White @molly0xFFF 37m and when you decide to defund libraries because "people who can afford it can just buy the books", you restrict access to those who can't afford it Ken Herman @kherman 21m How about if we use those tax dollars to buy the books for those who can't afford them? Molly White @molly0xFFF congratulations! you have just invented libraries
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    Mar 15, 2025
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    El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.

    El Faro English @elfaroenglish 🚨“We have received reliable information that the Salvadoran Attorney General’s Office is preparing arrest warrants for El Faro journalists,” announces El Faro director @CarlosDada Quote El Faro @_elfaro_ May 3 “Hemos recibido información confiable de que la Fiscalía General está preparando órdenes de captura contra periodistas de El Faro”, informó hoy @CarlosDada, director de El Faro. 🧵 Mira esta conversación: El Faro English @elfaroenglish · May 4 El Faro just published a three-part video interview with two former leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios gang, shedding new light on Bukele’s years-long relationship to, and negotiations with, Salvadoran gangs. From elfaro.net El Faro English @elfaroenglish May 4 “We understand that the alleged crimes for which these warrants are being built are apology for crimes and illicit association. Any capture or raid on our homes will be for having done journalism,” states editor-in-chief @CronistaOscar Quote El Faro @_elfaro_ May 3 Replying to @_elfaro_ “Comprendemos que los delitos por los que construyen estas órdenes es por apología de delitos y agrupaciones ilícitas. Cualquier captura o allanamiento a nuestras casas va a ser por haber hecho periodismo”, señaló @CronistaOscar, jefe de redacción de El Faro.
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    May 5, 2025
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    in case you weren't familiar with why elon musk has a longstanding grudge against Wikipedia

    he hates what he cannot control

    slate.com/technology/2...

    But there is in fact someone who cares more about Musk’s Wikipedia page than even his most diehard fanboy—Elon Musk himself. All signs indicate that the world’s richest man is obsessed with how he is described on the free internet encyclopedia. Back in December 2019, Musk tweeted, “Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It’s insane! Btw, can someone please delete ‘investor’. I do basically zero investing.” In a follow-up tweet, Musk suggested that his Wikipedia page should focus on his leadership of Tesla and SpaceX rather than his investing activity. Although it’s notoriously hard to read Musk’s mind, his tweets indicate that he would prefer that Wikipedia name him as a “founder” of Tesla because of his relatively early contributions to the company and popular associations with the EV brand. But notice how, once again, Musk is asking Wikipedia editors to set aside years of third-party reporting that documents how Musk purchased shares to become Tesla’s majority shareholder and was not one of the individuals involved since Tesla’s scrappy beginnings. Thankfully, Musk cannot decree what information about him should appear on Wikipedia, nor can he mandate that Wikipedia use his preferred nomenclature.
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    Dec 25, 2024
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    time to put granny in the fields and deploy the agricultural robots that don't exist and aren't being developed after we gutted science funding

    Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
    Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
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    Jul 8, 2025
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    The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

    Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

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    Jan 19, 2025
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    the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

    A red knitted cap with a pointed crown with a braided tassel. It's titled "Melt the ICE Hat" and it's by YarnCultMN n the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal and punishable by law to wear, make, or distribute. As purveyors of traditional craft, we felt it appropriate to revisit this design. The sample shown was knit in Blue Sky Fibers Skyland for the DK version. All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to the LynLake community of businesses who will distribute the funds to those impacted by the actions of ICE.
    molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social
    aside from work stuff, i mostly use social media to look at funny videos of dogs and subreddits about nail polish. you would not BELIEVE what the lacqueristas are getting up to over there, the anti-ICE nail art is flooding the feed.
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    Jan 19, 2026
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    Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses.

    www.reuters.com/investigatio...

    How the Trump family earns from crypto Trump crypto gains and investor losses from Nov. 2024 to April 2026 ALT5 Sigma American Bitcoin World Liberty Financial $TRUMP meme coin Trump gains +$1.1 bln Trump gains +$616 mln Trump gains Trump gains +$538 m +$19 mln -$674 mln Investor losses Investor losses -$711 mln Investor losses -$675 mln Investor losses -$216 mln How the Trump family earns How the Trump family earns How the Trump family earns How the Trump family earns At the time of the deal that created this Nasdaq-listed joint venture, partner Hut 8 Inc. bought World Liberty tokens. Eric Trump also got a stake in American Bitcoin, at no cost. A company controlled by Donald Trump’s revocable trust is entitled to 75% of net revenue from token sales by World Liberty Financial. Donald Trump licensed his name and image to a company called Celebration Cards LLC, which raised enormous sums selling the digital token. The Nasdaq-listed company, recently renamed AI Financial Corp., raised money from investors to buy World Liberty Financial tokens. Card graphic showing the crypto ventures of the Trump family, how they earned and how much they gained compared to investor losses from Nov. 2024 to April 2026. Sources: Blockchain records, company statements and interviews Prinz Magtulis | REUTERS
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    Jun 9, 2026
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    The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

    Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
    The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
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    Jan 2, 2025
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    having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

    Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath · 2h Wikipedia lies. Mainstream media lies. They will contort the truth to make you believe in a bogeyman. In falling for it, you’re giving up your God given ability to think for yourself. Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire Wikipedia has been ideologically captured for years It's important that this is finally coming to light The most extreme bias is probably against Israel Foundation AI models are being trained on this biased data as if it's ground truth Elon Musk @elonmusk · 3h Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored! Elon Musk @elonmusk · 3h Since legacy media propaganda is considered a “valid” source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!
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    Jan 21, 2025
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    Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

    Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
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    Jan 25, 2026
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    Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

    Kulusevski's Patella Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social
    Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
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    Jan 15, 2026
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    alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it.

    it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

    AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse
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    Jul 20, 2026
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    As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."

    Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social
    Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...
    Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
    The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
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    Jan 8, 2025
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    I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.

    Trump dropping his own memecoin means he has the wrong people in his ear re crypto policy. I’m now getting very concerned about the Trump presidency. nic carter @nic__carter · 11h Something that hasn’t been much discussed - creating a bunch of personal memecoins opens the door to secretive foreign buyers trying to curry influence with our leaders. If you hated hunter biden’s anonymous art sales, you should hate this too. nic carter @nic__carter Basically, we used to have an informal rule that presidents wouldn’t start or run businesses that could pose a conflict of interest. Creating a bunch of memecoins and defi protocols opens the possibility to rampant violations of the emoluments clause. Not to mention the obvious COI given the fact that trump can set crypto policy. Ryan Selkis (d/acc) 🇺🇸 @twobitidiot Dear @realDonaldTrump : Please fire whoever recommended going forward with the Melania launch today. 1. They don’t know what they’re doing. 2. They cost you a lot of $ and goodwill. 3. They don’t have your interests in mind. Brent @Brentsketit feel bad for anyone trying to build anything serious rn president just making a complete mockery of this industry fighting another biden admin prolly would have been better longterm
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    Jan 20, 2025
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    when ICE asks you questions about your neighbors, you've never met your neighbors in your life. you've never even seen them from afar. neighbors? what neighbors?

    regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
    ICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”
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    Jan 13, 2026
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    cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog

    ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

    Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social
    Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list
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    Oct 19, 2025
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    "They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions"

    oh, ok then

    Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
    An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.
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    Jun 12, 2025
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    back in my day we called this spyware

    New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
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    May 21, 2024
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    any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.

    @goldenstatecats.bsky.social
    Isn’t there a democratic billionaire who can buy Wikipedia and keep it free of Rich White MAGA Separatists?? Please we need a wealthy benefactor who’s on the good side, the sane side, the kind side, the normal American side
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    Jan 8, 2025
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    slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

    Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.
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    Oct 1, 2025
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    > the shooter is trans
    > ok the bullets were trans
    > ok the roommate is trans

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    Sep 14, 2025
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    see you there

    Handmade sign on a rectangle of cardboard, in black marker and red paint. “TO DO<br>☒ buy milk<br>☒ feed the dog<br>☐ hold them accountable<br>☐ never let this happen again”
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    Mar 28, 2026