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M @ttbidinger.com · Feb 18

Wrong, thanks for playing tho.

The correct answer is Calacanis.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Feb 7

One person talked about how - more than the likely loss of her job- what grieved her was how impossible it will be to restore the sense that public service matters even after Trump moves on. Another told me that Republicans confirmed Russ Vought, who promised to put these employees “in trauma”

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M @ttbidinger.com · Feb 7

Server 2025 inplace upgrades, beware if you have drives running ReFS - post-upgrade all files could be enumerated and displayed, none opened. ACLs inaccessible, can't be overwritten. Restored from backup to new volume, deleted old, changed drive letter to match. Not soooo ReSilient. #WS2025

M @ttbidinger.com · Feb 6

Or... have some humanity and do something to mitigate the harm inflicted on them, as if we were decent fucking human beings rather than monsters having harmed them then also exploiting them for personal political motivations?

Just spitballing. Things are gonna suck, we should be good people anyway

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M @ttbidinger.com · Feb 5

Relatively, Biden was boring as shit... If it weren't for the genocide, nazism, and failure of checks and balances, this would be a wild time to be alive.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Feb 5

This guy is a guy who gets carries/account recoveries not to save time or because he actually enjoys anything about the game. No, no, Elon wants to seem cool online. This is where he is most sensitive I guarantee you. Elizabeth Warren should say he paid someone to level for him, he'll lose it

M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 29

Disdain, damnit

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 29

Can't buy or fake or bully a certain kind of power, you just have it or you don't. Probably what irritates them fundamentally. That and their distain for competence.

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 28

Last sentence good, first is not the sentence of a fighter.

The IG response was better - "lol no, see you in court"

Consistency is important, and sounding resigned to fate then claiming you will fight in the same paragraph is kinda weird.

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 28

Why would she put this out if fighting? It feels like there's a lot of acceptance going on. And few lights like the IG saying "lol no, that's not legal"

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 26

"despite my gastritis" ...this dude fucks

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 26

This seems like the proper mechanism: x.com/rogertansey/...

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 25

I think he's misreading the association.

Trump has removed the veil. Rules don't matter if you don't follow them, and the executive enforces the rules, so if they choose to violate and not enforce rules... What mechanism is going to hold them accountable?

The immunity ruling was demonstrative.

M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 25

What's the mechanism? Has one already failed, in that departments are following illegal orders before saying, hey maybe let's run this one by the lawyers?

Seems like everything runs on norms, rather than legislation, and it's going just great.

I don't love the part where democrats play possum tho.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jan 25

I’m a broken record on this, but the pause is completely illegal. It directly violates Section 1013 of the Impoundment Control Act.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Jan 25

Many sudden and shocking health care developments this week. But this was a big one: The Trump administration on Friday paused funding for PEPFAR, the famed program to fight HIV/AIDS around the world.

@mradamtaylor.bsky.social @johnphudson.bsky.social Missy Ryan + a little help from me

Funds for fight against HIV/AIDS paused in Trump aid freeze

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is credited with saving 25 million lives worldwide and has long enjoyed bipartisan support.

www.washingtonpost.com

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 25

People with cancer are having their treatment halted due to the NIH EO. We all are not going to make it, and that's intentional.

M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 24

Continuing a career of success dehumanizing non-white children, he next aims to achieve peace in the middle east. Which he describes with words like "glass" and "white settlers" and talk of "affordable housing".

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 23

This is inarguably true, as it confirms all my priors.

M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 23

What we don't want to do is mix the two together in some kind of weird bastardization. Not helpful.

M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 23

Perhaps they think it's snarky and feisty, gives them a hit of dopamine.

I don't like it. Not impressed. Don't see how it serves the goals, and it muddies what the values are.

If someone is doing something that sucks, say it sucks. If you have better ideas, present your ideas.

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 23

Amazing lack of self awareness... The country just voted for fascism because the press failed american values.

That guy hasn't done the math

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Jan 23

By the way, this is actual news: this is Trump's "DEI" czar admitting that his actual project is to undo the 1960s civil rights laws.

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 22

Figuring out the extent of this, and how to maybe get them out, probably won't turn out being important anyway. Sure they were just doing research. Not of anything interesting, as if they had a notorious history of corporate espionage. Seems fine.

Reuters @reuters.com · Jan 22

The Department of Homeland Security is firing all the members of its various advisory committees, a move which people familiar with the matter said would disrupt the agency's efforts to investigate a sweeping hack of US telecom companies blamed on Beijing reut.rs/3C97b5g

US DHS fires outside advisers, sources say China probe disrupted

The Department of Homeland Security is firing all the members of its various advisory committees, according to a letter seen by Reuters, a move which two people familiar with the matter said would disrupt the agency's efforts to investigate a sweeping hack of U.S. telecom companies blamed on Beijing.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Jan 22

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.

Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 21

Why do they always put us in the position to try to sus out if it's painfully naive, willful ignorance, just dumb or actual malice?

M @ttbidinger.com · Jan 20

That's what it would take for me to support Trump, except it has to be the sun.

Fire musk into the sun, and you might win my vote, in whatever imaginary future exists where we vote and it matters.