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Bobby Quine

@quine.bsky.social

Curmudgeonly computer security person. Opinions (and the like) are mine.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦@chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 15h ago

Aside from all the obvious issues, this announcement comes just *hours* before Exercise Ulchi Freedom Shield begins, one of the largest joint US-Korean military exercises. Ulchi Freedom Shield is a successor to Ulchi Freedom Guardian, which the first Trump administration promised to cancel.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h ago

Trump allies himself w/Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship w/Kim Jong Un, I am not happy that the US has agreed to Joint Military Exercises…I recently asked the President of SK if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of Iran, & they said, ‘No thanks!’”

Trump allies himself with totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful … While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, ‘No thanks!’”
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP.

Enrique Tarrio O @NobleOne X.com They're still doing it because we didn't hang them last time. 3:18 PM • 8/15/26 • 11K Views
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d ago

You know that source of US power that's lingering due to network effects—so many use the dollar and dollar-denominated assets that it'd be a pain to switch, there's no alternative—the power we haven't managed to throw away yet? Yeah, we want to trash that one too. While calling it "America First."

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d ago

JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency. (Loud cheers in Beijing and Moscow)

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is what democracy looks like (chuds shocking each other to the laughter of chuds knowing who the gloves will actually be used to shock and then charge with resisting)

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you’re grabbed by someone wearing “shock gloves”…your body may convulse involuntarily. It could look like you’re resisting arrest when in reality, you’re in medical distress. The appearance of resistance will embolden ICE to use lethal force. These gloves will kill people.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you’re grabbed by someone wearing “shock gloves”…your body may convulse involuntarily. It could look like you’re resisting arrest when in reality, you’re in medical distress. The appearance of resistance will embolden ICE to use lethal force. These gloves will kill people.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 3d ago

There could not be a more blatant violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits any executive branch employee from "Using his or her official title while participating in political activity." Unlikely to be prosecuted, however. Will any news org even mention this? www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/7...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d ago

These are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.

Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · 3d ago

Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · last wk.

Extractivism, writes Hao: "a mode of accumulation based on hyper-extraction with lopsided benefits and costs: concentrated mass-scale removal of resources primarily for export, with benefits accumulating far from the sites of extraction" Now THAT'S what I call "A.i."!

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · last wk.

I can’t believe that liberals would rather be against the super mid position of defunding police rather than learn the definition of defund. But here we are. With schools defunded. Social safety nets defunded. Food safety defunded. Regulatory agencies defunded. In part because you never listened.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

Wasting billions of our taxpayer money in order to make our electric bills higher? Well, that's just the proven brilliance of the Businessman President™ folks.

Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov · last wk.

$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.

Chris J. Karr@cjkarr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Any newborn who has been busy enough doing stuff within the womb to qualify for one of Stephen Miller's categories has been busy indeed! I'm curious how a fetus is capable of lobbying on behalf of a foreign terrorist organization.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Stephen Miller: "The president is using his authority as commander as chief to sign an executive order using the new ruling the Supreme Court issued to expand the definition of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship. That includes, for example, alien enemies ... "

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."