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US citizen. Veteran. Oldest balance scale found 3300 BCE.

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterday

Exclusive: A Post investigation found that for-profit trade schools defrauded the U.S. government of over $300 million through the GI Bill, exploiting veterans with overpriced, short courses due to lax oversight and loopholes.

How predatory trade schools drained $300 million from the GI Bill and cheated veterans

Trade schools fleeced VA — and taxpayers — of more than $300 million, often by teaching short and easy courses, a Post investigation finds.

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Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last wk.

"In charging a man for allegedly typing in a duress password which wiped his privacy-focused GrapheneOS phone, the U.S. government is trying to intimidate other activists from protecting their data and participating in social movements, Samuel Tunick, the man charged" www.404media.co/the-governme...

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to ...

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Tina Smith@smith.senate.gov · last wk.

Trump tried canceling $646,000,000 in infrastructure money for Minnesotans just because we didn’t vote for him. But the real kicker is that he tried blocking new transmission lines that would connect the grids in *Republican* states (SD, ND, IA, MO, NE and KS) just because they included Minnesota.

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2w ago

New: Public records show how a city that ended its Flock contract spent months trying to get the company to remove the cameras or turn off the cameras. They were told Flock "objects" to the city removing the camera itself. Eventually city put trash bags over them: www.404media.co/flock-object...

Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras

"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great."

404media.co

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3w ago

The documents that Trump released and endorsed clearly validate and detail a massive Russian intelligence service operation to elect Donald Trump of which he and his entourage were aware and in which they knowingly participated. Russiagate is real, we learn.

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VoteVets@votevets.org · 3w ago

BREAKING: Republicans just FAILED to secure enough votes for the “Take Care of America’s Veterans Act” in a massive win for the Veteran Community. The bill would have cut benefits for 1.5 million veterans by changing disability ratings for common conditions like tinnitus and sleep apnea.

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Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3w ago

The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette. His wife has now come forward to say he suffers from severe mental health issues, is abusive and violent in their relationship. ICE is aware of this.

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

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Abraham Gutman@abgutman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.

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Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3w ago

The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...

DRL NOFO Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in Europe - United States Department of State

Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in EuropeBureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, Department of StateOpportunity number: ...

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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 3w ago

The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus. 1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen. 2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus. 3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

it's even dumber than you think

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4w ago

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · last mo.

Do not let Trump gaslight you. He already has a massive secret underground command center under the White House that was built in 2010. Here are the details about the existing doomsday bunker built after 9/11: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The multilevel bunker In fact, it was built because of lessons learned after the 9/11 attacks. Ronald Kessler, who wrote about the construction in his 2018 book, "The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game," spoke with The Washington Post by phone on Monday to describe the project. "After that attack, the national security people recognized that that just is not going to cut it," Kessler said, referring to the old facility. "That's just not sufficient." "The idea was, before that, that if there were a nuclear attack or something - biological, radiological attack - that the White House staff and the president's people could be evacuated to some remote location at Wes Virginia or Pennsylvania," he continued. (But then they realized after the 9/11 attack that they could never leave Washington, certainly by vehicle, because all the roads were clogged. It would take too long. And even by helicopter, it would take - it would be very risky, given that the country was under attack. So they came up with this scheme to create a totally separate facility, an underground bunker under the North Lawn.In 2010, the General Services Administration began a large project outside the section of the White House where the Oval Office and offices of the president's senior advisers are located. The GSA insisted that the work was meant to replace existing infrastructure at the White House, but the scale and secrecy of the project belied that. 'The GSA went to great lengths to keep the work secret," the Associated Press reported in 2012, when construction neared completion, "not only putting up the fence around the excavation site but ordering subcontractors not to talk to anyone and to tape over company info on trucks pulling into the White House gates. "It's a bunker, right?" The Post's Christian Davenport wrote in 2011. "It's gotta be a bunker."According to Kessler, it was. "What it consists of is five stories deep into the ground with its own air supply and food supply," he said, noting that few details are known. "It is sealed off from the aboveground area so that if there were, for example, a nuclear attack, the radiation would not penetrate into this bunker, which has very thick concrete walls and that sort of thing." The purpose is to serve as a command center and living quarters for the president and staff members. The air supply is self-contained, Kessler said, and the facility is stocked with enough food to last for months. When Trump arrived at the White House in 2017, he and a few select officials were given a tour of the facility, which remains unstaffed, a sort of subterranean "break glass in case of emergency"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump: "The best thing and the biggest thing we're doing is we're building a ballroom,and a tremendous military center. That was supposed to be to top secret, but it's no longer topic secret, because whatever you do you get sued."