I heard on NPR about a "corruption" tour where people could climb up a ladder to peer over the wall surrounding the Orban family compound to where just a part of the tax money stolen from them was going. Thought: "if they can do that w/out fear of getting shot, it go well on Sunday."

The Trump admin (via both lawsuits & legislation) aims to purge voter rolls nationwide using its “SAVE” voter purge system, which relies on data from an SSA system that DOGE allegedly copied to an insecure cloud server, per a whistleblower. Does “SAVE” link to this allegedly insecure copy?? Anyone??

Why the Trump-Backed Save America Act Threatens Election Security Nationwide - Bucks County Beacon

Buried in the legislation is a mandate requiring every state to funnel voter data into a centralized voter-purge system plagued by security and accuracy concerns and controlled by the Trump administra...

buckscountybeacon.com

Trying to provoke both a world war and Civil War at the same time while demanding a Nobel peace prize is a level of insanity that might never be matched

@marcelias.bsky.social: "Iran, Venezuela, China, Italy, Cuba and Germany are not the reason Trump lost in 2020 — he is. These countries do not justify an authoritarian takeover in 2026. No foreign threat or domestic circumstance grants him that power."

Trump’s attack on Iran and the plot against your vote

Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.

democracydocket.com

Something lovely in a rough day. baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...

Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city

CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night. Work...

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Cokeweed sounds better than the original tbh Any other spicy brained people feel very little when they’ve tried it?* *hypothetically of course

Dr, octocryptid PhD, chart reader 🜬@octocryptid.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Oh yeah now we're talking

This is because the Pentagon and Trump don’t like Anthropic’s language preventing their tech from being used to surveil Americans or for autonomous weapons. Which means the Pentagon wants to use their tech to surveil Americans and build autonomous weapons apnews.com/article/anth...

Trump orders all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology

President Donald Trump says he's ordering all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safe...

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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

Congrats to @andykroll.bsky.social for this well-deserved recognition.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6mo ago

"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting. The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration. Read it here:

Incredible that this needs to be said.

Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Disciplines reject what isn’t intellectually valid... If the discipline of Geology determines that the flat-Earth theory doesn’t meet its standards, geologists do not need to hire flat-Earthers and provide lessons in flat-Earth theory to their students." stanforddaily.com/2026/02/17/v...

> features like it would be expanded to “zero out crime in neighborhoods.” 🫩 that's not how surveillance works.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

These folks lie with ease and frequency but the text of the emails is also an insight into the megalomania of tech bros. You made a doorbell with a camera bro.

Don Jr. says that talking about the conflicts of interest in him and his brother Eric Trump profiting from his father’s presidency has “gotten old.” No. We don’t talk about it enough.

“Trump’s election bill tops 50 Senate votes, but Democrats could still block it” electionlawblog.org?p=154387

"Trump's election bill tops 50 Senate votes, but Democrats could still block it" #ELB

NBC News: The SAVE America Act to require proof of citizenship nationwide to register to vote and overhaul voting laws has now topped 50 votes in the Republican-controlled Senate. The bill is supporte...

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The return of The Pants makes me so happy. thecurlingnews.com/news/news/no...

Norway Delivers Olympic Crazy Curling Pants Return

The Pants are back, and it’s a sudden – but glorious – Olympic curling sight

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As the DOJ tries to accumulate states’ voter rolls and feed it to DHS’s error-ridden ‘SAVE’ tool, we cover how your sensitive information is at risk of exposure and manipulation and what can be done about it. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/election-deniers-want-your-data

Happy President’s Day : FUCK TRUMP ‼️ — via RiseResistNYC

wow - Scott Galloway has started a "resistance" oriented service to fight oligarchy. Resistance is growing. www.resistandunsubscribe.com?utm_source=s...

Resist and Unsubscribe

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I have one word for anyone who says protests are pointless, useless: MINNESOTA!

Love this.

@accountablegop.bsky.social @judiciarydems.senate.gov @senatebudget.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov @commerce.senate.gov @senatepress.bsky.social

Face Facts Not Lies@facefactsnotlies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Incredible www.instagram.com/reel/DUtTdIz...

Lawmakers call out Justice Department for tracking their Epstein file searches

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Lawmakers call out Justice Department for tracking their Epstein file searches - UPI.com

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good for her.

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 6mo ago

Young CBS News producer quits b/c of Bari Weiss, complains of stories being "evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations—a dynamic that pressures producers and reporters to self-censor." www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Tell your dumbshit MAGA friends they voted for a rapist. TRUMP. IS. A. RAPIST. Say it out loud with your full chest. "You voted for a rapist!" No, he has not been convicted of rape in criminal court, but he has been legally designated as a "rapist" and been found guilty of rape in civil court.

Republicans don't have unwavering principles anymore. And they know they'll be threatened anytime they do or say something Trump doesn't like.

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Not every issue in our politics needs to be shirts and skins. Republicans don’t need to automatically be against everything Democrats stand for. We could decide together that no president should ever arrest a political opponent for free speech.