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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 23:27:10 JST Danny the Weary
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- Heidi Li Feldman
- Paul Cantrell
@inthehands @heidilifeldman are you placing CJ Roberts in the "best" category here? Because... yikes
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 15:36:00 JST Danny the Weary

DOGE's Cyberattack Against America
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/
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1. Then, we learned that uncleared DOGE personnel had gained access to classified data from the U.S. Agency for International Development, possibly copying it onto their own systems. Next, the Office of Personnel Management—which holds detailed personal data on millions of federal employees, including those with security clearances—was compromised. After that, Medicaid and Medicare records were compromised. Meanwhile, only partially redacted names of CIA employees were sent over an unclassified email account. DOGE personnel are also reported to be feeding Education Department data into artificial intelligence software, and they have also started working at the Department of Energy. This story is moving very fast. On Feb. 8, a federal judge blocked the DOGE team from accessing the Treasury Department systems any further. But given that DOGE workers have already copied data and possibly installed and modified software, it’s unclear how this fixes anything.
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  DOGE Is Hacking America
  
  from Bruce Schneier
  
  The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 15:26:35 JST Danny the Weary
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- Tek say resist
@tek thanks for grandboss, and bon voyage

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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 08:16:17 JST Danny the Weary
- emptywheel
Contesting true facts about reality because there is no effective defense
Cotton Swabs and Grievance Myths: Do Not Invite Republicans to Express Support for Kash Patel's Witch Hunts - @emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/21/cotton-swabs-and-grievance-myths-do-not-invite-republicans-to-express-support-for-kash-patels-witch-hunts/
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1. So instead of giving the harmless concession she invited, that Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, Trump instead hijacked Welker’s platform to lie about being a victim. She asked for something to support unity. He stoked division more, blaming the polarization of the country on Biden. Then he made false claims of grievance. It had exactly opposite effect Welker imagined. And in the fact check NBC did after the interview? Trump’s lie about Biden weaponizing DOJ went unmentioned. NBC treated it, a brazen lie, as if it were true. If you want to know how Trump got elected even after being charged in two federal indictments, you might start with the way that every legacy media outlet lets lies like this go uncontested.* Always. Trump never gets fact checked on his false claims about the federal investigations into his attempted coup and stolen documents. As a result, even newsies who watch mainstream Sunday shows might be forgiven for believing the cases against Trump were ginned up, to say nothing of the judges and lawyers, from Aileen Cannon to Bill Barr to Sam Alito, who instead pickle their brains with the propaganda on Fox News.
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  Cotton Swabs and Grievance Myths: Do Not Invite Republicans to Express Support for Kash Patel's Witch Hunts - emptywheel
  
  from emptywheel
  
  Given the 8 year con job Trump has pursued to get Republicans to believe his false myth of grievance, you will never get Republicans to oppose Kash Patel as FBI Director by asking them to disavow that myth.
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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 08:16:16 JST Danny the Weary
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- emptywheel
@emptywheel
Even when true facts about reality have defenders, they are unable to reach the mass of the electorate confined within a default information ecosystem of deranged and malicious fabrications
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1. And on questions regarding Trump’s troubled relationship with rule of law, it always involves false claims about past DOJ practice, either denials he politicized DOJ or false claims it was politicized against him. Sometimes both! Trump and his allies have used Cotton swabs to sneak hundreds — probably thousands — of false claims that he, and not his adversaries, was a victim of politicized prosecution onto purportedly factual news outlets with no pushback. None. Indeed, at least one of the underlying examples of Republicans giving reassurances about Kash that Sargent cited was itself a Cotton swab. Rick Scott didn’t just say that Trump wouldn’t launch investigations in his second term, the part Sargent quoted, he premised his answer on a false claim that Trump didn’t do so in his first term (a very common claim among Trump’s most loyal allies).
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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 07:40:50 JST Danny the Weary

Senator Murphy gets it
Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Ominous New Warning About Trump Nails It | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/189552/transcript-chris-murphys-ominous-new-warning-trump-nails
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  Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Ominous New Warning About Trump Nails It
  
  from @null
  
  An interview with Senator Chris Murphy, who argues that Trump’s attacks on democracy are accelerating as we speak, that the media is folding, and that Democrats must sound the alarm before it’s too late.
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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 07:30:01 JST Danny the Weary

super informative, and naturally affirms my views
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-won
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1. Let's return to the difference between the oversimplified Flatland views of election dynamics and the more complete 3D-Land approach. There's a useful analogy to medical diagnosis: X-rays are great for diagnosing a broken bone, but three- dimensional MRIs can diagnose many brain and nervous system disorders, soft tissue and joint injuries, and cardiovascular disorders invisible to X-rays and earlier diagnostic approaches. When we use the wrong tools, we might not just fail to diagnose an illness — we might misdiagnose it, and prescribe a treatment actively harmful to the patient. When Flatland analysts argue America “moved right,” the prescription tends to be Democrats should also move right, or at least play nice with Trump to avoid alienating the Americans who supposedly granted him a decisive mandate. The same prescription will be dispensed to civil society and the media. But that diagnosis completely misses the life-threatening illness America is really struggling with: a billionaire-captured system doesn’t work for most people, and justifiable disaffection and anger at this system. Americans are fed up, and people are perpetually in the mood to throw the bums out, whoever the bums in charge are. But with only two parties to realistically choose from — plus an illegitimate Electoral College that makes most Americans’ presidential votes irrelevant — all of these “change elections” add up to little more than a seesaw most Americans don’t want to ride in the first place.
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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 07:30:00 JST Danny the Weary
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I found this article/newsletter (suckstab, barf) after searching for an unsourced assertion that Harris lost 19 million Biden voters.
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1. As regular readers might recall, Biden won in 2020 thanks to a surge of new and less-frequent voters who hadn’t shown up in 2016, and who voted much more Democratic than 2016 voters. These surge voters were the critical “anti-MAGA but not necessarily pro-Democrat” bloc that Harris needed to turn out again in order to win. This year, based on VoteCast data (see chart in the previous section), we can estimate that about 19 million people who voted for Biden four years ago stayed home. (40 percent of those voting in 2024 had voted for Biden in 2020, and 40 percent had voted for Trump. From there, it’s simple arithmetic.16) Moreover, with the same caveats until the voter files are updated, both VoteCast and Navigator found that in the battleground states, a greater share of 2020 Trump voters than Biden voters cast ballots in 2024, albeit by a smaller margin than in the rest of the country. VoteCast also asked whether voters cast ballots “for” the candidate they chose or “against” the other candidate.17 The results show that about 15 million fewer votes were cast “against” Trump in 2024 than in 2020. That suggests a lot of missing “anti-MAGA but not pro-Democrat” voters.
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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 16:01:37 JST Danny the Weary
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- Mike Masnick ✅
- theverge
@mmasnick @theverge Thanks for the reminder, I had meant to support this and am shocked you haven't met your funding objective. I signed up for 5 copies.

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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 02:43:48 JST Danny the Weary
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- Tek say resist
- Steve M.
I will not linger long in any Nazi bar I find myself, but am still coming to terms with failing to recognize how many places I should have already left.
There's an enormous part of the economy rushing to do business in and with the Nazi bar.
@tek @nomoremister

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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 23:34:01 JST Danny the Weary
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- HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@HistoPol see also
https://web.archive.org/web/20240612152546/https://www.project2025.org/playbook/

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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:32:06 JST Danny the Weary
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- Kat
@TheRealKat helpfully re-memed with alt text description and comment here
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112663149489792799

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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:32:03 JST Danny the Weary
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@TheRealKat that's odd, it appears to me as a typical post from a user on another mastodon instance my host is federated with.

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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:32:00 JST Danny the Weary
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@TheRealKat same, I wonder if your host mstdn.social is not federated with mastodon.social... here's the screencap:
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1. Image of a re-memed toot
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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 13:26:03 JST Danny the Weary
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- Mother Bones
- Paul Cantrell
@_L1vY_ @geoffreyconley @inthehands the anguish is so genuine, true comedic genius, I am constitutionally unable to not boost this whenever I see it.

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Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 09:54:37 JST Danny the Weary
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@tchambers @jerry
@buttondown ?

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