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cyberpunkwitch
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Math and tech nerd, sometimes software engineer, amateur artist and writer, pet mom, democratic socialist, trans lady. Please donate if you like my posts and like me and my peeps to be indoors, thanks <3. $malicemoppet
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cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 13d
I've got bottom surgery coming up (Halloween!) and need to save up for recovery expenses
Cashapp as always is $malicemoppet
I am pretty much couch surfing right now, I have social support / people but could use cash for supplies (stuff like wet wipes, gauze etc) and bills thank you.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h
The executive spending money on paying the military without congressional approval is "fall of the Roman republic" behavior.
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Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social · 20h
The executive branch not spending the money that Congress has told them to spend is bad. The executive branch spending money on things for which Congress has not given them money is also bad (and, arguably, worse).
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h
President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 4h
my god there has never been a more accurate use of this
I sleep in a race car bed
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cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 3h
and most of the united states actually at this point, for lack of a better alternative (antifa is great but too many democrats are fucking traitors to working class people), because karoline leavitt and her party are all nazi fascists.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d
"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3h
Reddit's AI product provided dangerous advice in medical subreddits and moderators can't turn it off www.404media.co/reddit-answe...
Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin
AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.
www.404media.co
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cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 3h
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How it works - Briar
Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central s...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15h
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper
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cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 8h
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Black Books: clip from series one
YouTube video by Stuart P
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daryl "treehouse of hormones" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 13h
they've been easing this concept in for a long while, now it's just full throttle because no one's stopping them and they control the majority of media outlets

if the protests don't count from blue cities, and blue states/cities don't count for government funding, why count their votes either?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h
As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this.

It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest
It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.
"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...
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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 9h
tech companies be like "by this time next year you won't even need to use the computer because it will just be automatic" while failing to consider that i want to use the computer
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cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 13h
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Latest Poll SHOCKS Fox News And Spells DISASTER For Trump
YouTube video by Really American
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cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 15h
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ICE CAUGHT Killing A “Legal” Dog
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations U.S. Code Notes prev | next (a)Prohibition It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer. (b)Reporting requirement Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. (c)Exceptions Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made— (1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service; (2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or (3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy. (d)Penalty Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution. (e)Applicable person For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means— (1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and (2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.
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cyberpunkwitch @cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social · 17h
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fellas the group chat done got leaked
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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Feb 13
TOMORROW BELONGS TO US
2 panel meme. Top panel: Guy in a military outfit including a gas mask riding on the front of a motorized something or other, a tank perhaps, with a long gun barrel sticking out. He's looking at the camera, turned around from the direction of travel. Overlaid text reads, "hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now but" Bottom panel: It's a zoom in on the eyes in the gas mask. The original meme says, "it's about to get much worse" or something like that. This version is subverted where that text is removed and "the future is unknowable and will be determined by how hard we fight now for a loving world" is inserted.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
And the craziest part is this was needless. Congress would've passed a military pay bill with near unanimous support! Congressional Ds have been begging Rs to bring a bill to pay the military to the floor! But Johnson refuses to gavel in because he doesn't want an Epstein vote.
Johnson wearing a jacket that's photoshopped to say "this has nothing to do with epstein"
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
That is profoundly illegal. You may not spend money on a purpose without funding. The constitution expressly forbids it, as does the ADA.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
When money is appropriated, it's also authorized to be used only for certain activities. So if you give $50 million to the Department of Transportation to build bridges, it couldn't use that money to build airports instead.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
Military pay is appropriated one year at a time, with a one-year period of availability. The fiscal year ended on September 30th, and we did not pass new appropriations bills (the government is shut down), so there's no money available to pay the troops (or to do lots of things).
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
Most money has what's called a period of availability. You can go about obligating it only during that period. While it's illegal to not use it all (that's the illegal impoundments Trump has been doing all year), after that period of availability ends, you can't use it anymore.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
Under the Constitution and under the ADA, it is illegal to spend money without funding for that purpose. The president may not spend money to do something unless there's actually money to carry it out and that action is expressly allowed.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C7-1/ALDE_00001095/
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d
Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/
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