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SCOOP: A startup founder and early DOGE recruiter posted in a Palantir alumni Slack recruiting for a new DOGE-related project. The project's goal, he said, is to automate work that's currently performed by 70,000 federal workers. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social:
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government

A startup founder told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees. He was met with emojis of clowns and a man licking a boot.

www.wired.com

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Cori Shepherd @corishep.bsky.social · Apr 27

You’re an amazing photographer.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Apr 27

Animating too much absolutely sensible outrage at Trumpism is an appeal to parental figures who aren’t there. “He should not be allowed”; “He should be arrested”; “This can’t be permitted.” Passive voice, all of which begs, “by whom?” It’s an appeal to an order that has already broken.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Apr 22

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

www.nbcnews.com

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Cori Shepherd @corishep.bsky.social · Apr 20

It’s America. Speak English.

(jk, in case anyone thinks I’m serious.)

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 19

American media are truly stuck on stupid. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

≥ NBC NEWS
GUNS IN AMERICA
FSU shooting suspect's
complex past comes to light - yet motive remains a mystery In recent years, Phoenix Ikner became known for far-right, white supremacist rhetoric, classmates said. It's unclear if that had any tie to the violence.

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Cori Shepherd @corishep.bsky.social · Apr 17

Project 2025 calls for abolishing the Fed.

Cori Shepherd @corishep.bsky.social · Apr 16

I wrote a Disney Princess Anti-Fascism Fight Song. #doyouheartheprincesssing ht @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

suno.com/song/60891f8...

Not Today, Motherfuckers

Listen and make your own on Suno.

suno.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · Mar 13

Every retailer in America should display the original price of an item along with the new tariffed price.

Let it sink in for the slowest in the herd.

Tariffs are a tax.

You're paying for them.

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Cori Shepherd @corishep.bsky.social · Mar 29

I’m definitely going with the non-fascist mullet.

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Cori Shepherd @corishep.bsky.social · Mar 29

My hair is dangerously close to this, except with bangs. I’m Southern. Now I have to really push my stylist for the full mullet.

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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Mar 26

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Mar 26

Also of note as Feds & even Democratic governors are pushing mask bans: 5 of the 6 plainclothes government agents are masked.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · Mar 26

This speaks volumes:

Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...

munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

Stanley from Yale to Toronto

Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...

leiterreports.typepad.com

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · Mar 24

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

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Cori Shepherd @corishep.bsky.social · Mar 25

You better shop around…

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Cori Shepherd @corishep.bsky.social · Mar 25

I don’t understand why Vance’s wife would go to Greenland. It’s really just an opportunity for Greenlanders to protest her, and could expose her to an attack by an inflamed nationalist, providing a pretext for counter-action by US forces…oh. Archduke Usha. (NOT a call for violence. Just pondering.)

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KellRaiser 😈 @kellycosgrove.bsky.social · Mar 24

Julia Louis Dreyfus: “So they just ADD him on the chat?…no…too stupid. Rewrite it.”

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