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Wes Miller

@getwired.com

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EX-Microsoft - Research analyst at Directions on Microsoft covering identity, security, management, & Microsoft licensing. Blog: http://getwired.com

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · Nov 6

Just deactivated my Twitter account, where I was also user @getwired. When it goes, it goes.

I’m done contributing to Elon’s harm he has done and will continue to do to this country.

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 3h

See also The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 3h

This… will not go well

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 4h

Ugh

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 4h

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

Wes Miller @getwired.com · 4h

Windows Embedded was honestly a really bad idea.

Wes Miller @getwired.com · 4h

Self-checkout PC: “An employee is on their way to help.”

Me: “No, I’m good, thanks.”

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Emilie Munson @emiliemunson.bsky.social · 4h

NEWS: Immigration authorities are increasingly detaining migrants including kids in temporary holding rooms at ICE and Border Patrol offices around NY for 3 days or more. These spots have no beds, showers, hot meals and were never meant for overnight detentions

www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Migrants languish in ICE, Border Patrol hold rooms across New York

In Buffalo, Albany, New York City, and along the Canadian border, detained migrants are waiting longer and longer in temporary holding facilities.

www.timesunion.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

John Oliver dismantled The Free Press and Bari tonight. I guess Sally isn't gonna be happy about that.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 4h

Anyone who tells you an AI process can actually replace humans in your business is lying to you. They’re also likely selling you AI services or GPUs.

Any exec. who tells you they’re cutting staff because they’re replacing X employees with AI is also lying to you. They’re just justifying staff cuts.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 6h

I’m guessing so they themselves don’t get detained by the ICE fascists.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13h

The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 7h

Marc Benioff called for the National Guard in S.F. The city doesn’t need the military on its streets. It needs the Salesforce founder to follow his grandfather’s example, Peter Hartlaub...

Marc Benioff wants troops in S.F.? There’s a path back to sanity, and it’s close to home

Marc Benioff called for the National Guard in S.F. The city doesn’t need the military on its streets. It needs the Salesforce founder to follow his grandfather’s example, Peter Hartlaub...

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Denver is too damn high 🚲 @yodelinghippie.bsky.social · 7h

If we do have a massive 1929 crash, well that would suck

But if there is a god, please, PLEASE let crypto take it hardest in the ass.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 8h

I do not want to see a Supreme Court justice’s face on cable news, period

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 9h

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The founding fathers would be so proud.

j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 9h

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

Wes Miller @getwired.com · 9h

And finally… the rain.

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Marge @margask.bsky.social · 11h

They did arrest a cyclist named Daryl today.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

Don’t dare record fascist goons! They’re kidnapping us citizens for doing so now in Chicago.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 9h

my 87yo Republican mother in law is taking it to the streets, for the first time in her life, with her friends at the retirement home on Saturday and that's why we will win

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“.. a nagging worry is beginning to grow louder on Wall Street: What if these kinds of collapses, capable of taking bonds from par to cents on the dollar in a matter of days or weeks, are not an aberration after all?” 👀

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 10h

This really highlights how negotiations between Israel and Palestine are negotiations between an occupier and an occupied people.

Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 10h

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h

This is a great example, but there's a funny running theme that Vance, who after all has only been a senator and then VP for less than three years, excepts to be treated with POTUS-level traditions and respect, as if anyone in American history has ever cared about "respecting the office" of VP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10h

Leadership looks like repeating the truth again and again and refusing to back down to bullies and pressure.

It looks like using your platform and leverage-- whatever it may be -- for the larger good.

So grateful to Pritzker and everyone else modeling this now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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