A Lloyd Flanagan
@alflanagan.bsky.social
Long-time computer programmer
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If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline.
There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487
There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487
June 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline.
There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487
There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487
My wife watched a documentary about Hitler’s inner circle a few months ago.
COMPLETELY UNRELATED FACT: she’s been predicting vicious infighting and messy public spats in the Trump Administration.
COMPLETELY UNRELATED FACT: she’s been predicting vicious infighting and messy public spats in the Trump Administration.
June 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My wife watched a documentary about Hitler’s inner circle a few months ago.
COMPLETELY UNRELATED FACT: she’s been predicting vicious infighting and messy public spats in the Trump Administration.
COMPLETELY UNRELATED FACT: she’s been predicting vicious infighting and messy public spats in the Trump Administration.
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People who think you can "ignore politics" are people who have never had their existence made into a political issue.
May 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
People who think you can "ignore politics" are people who have never had their existence made into a political issue.
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READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
May 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
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Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.
May 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.
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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
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Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.
On a 2023 earnings call, Elon Musk boasted that Tesla had bagged “over 1 million” Cybertruck reservations and that “demand is off the charts.”
So why has the company still sold less than 50,000 trucks since customer deliveries began 14 months ago?
So why has the company still sold less than 50,000 trucks since customer deliveries began 14 months ago?
‘Over 1 Million’ People Wanted a Cybertruck. Where Are They?
“Demand is off the charts!” Elon Musk crowed at the end of 2023, citing more than a million reservations for Tesla's polarizing polygonic pickup—so why has it still sold less than 50,000?
wrd.cm
March 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.
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Grateful for every day 💪🏻🩷
March 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Grateful for every day 💪🏻🩷
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Look, these messages could mean anything.
March 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look, these messages could mean anything.
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My legal bills as a nonparty will top $2 million before Cuomo’s legal abuse is over.
“I’ve spent roughly $1.5 million on lawyers so far…a figure that doesn’t include “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of trauma therapy.”
@rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“I’ve spent roughly $1.5 million on lawyers so far…a figure that doesn’t include “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of trauma therapy.”
@rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Andrew Cuomo's Exorbitantly Expensive Taxpayer-Funded Revenge Campaign
New York taxpayers have paid tens of millions to Andrew Cuomo's lawyers, who are now his biggest mayoral campaign boosters
www.rollingstone.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
My legal bills as a nonparty will top $2 million before Cuomo’s legal abuse is over.
“I’ve spent roughly $1.5 million on lawyers so far…a figure that doesn’t include “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of trauma therapy.”
@rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“I’ve spent roughly $1.5 million on lawyers so far…a figure that doesn’t include “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of trauma therapy.”
@rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
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I work for a local community-based non-profit called Hyattsville Aging in Place that among other things offers "friendly visits" and phone calls. There's infrastructure created for these that make it easy to organize. We can prevent Gene Hackman death situations if we work together.
March 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I work for a local community-based non-profit called Hyattsville Aging in Place that among other things offers "friendly visits" and phone calls. There's infrastructure created for these that make it easy to organize. We can prevent Gene Hackman death situations if we work together.
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Donald Trump targeted AP and legacy media did nothing.
Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.
You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.”
So, I ask you -- What are you doing?
Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.
You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.”
So, I ask you -- What are you doing?
March 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Donald Trump targeted AP and legacy media did nothing.
Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.
You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.”
So, I ask you -- What are you doing?
Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.
You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.”
So, I ask you -- What are you doing?
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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i think it's great that the nazi zoomers are systematically — and again, illegally — destroying our ability to do anything useful
March 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
i think it's great that the nazi zoomers are systematically — and again, illegally — destroying our ability to do anything useful
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i've failed to articulate for weeks now the near universal failure of the us press to truly understand, and crucially express back to the american people, what these events mean to europeans — how for us this may be abstract democracy-signaling (no small fault of the press) but for them existential
March 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
i've failed to articulate for weeks now the near universal failure of the us press to truly understand, and crucially express back to the american people, what these events mean to europeans — how for us this may be abstract democracy-signaling (no small fault of the press) but for them existential
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Employees at the National Crime Victimization Survey--the federal government's team for gathering crime data on victims, twice a year--have been ordered to remove all questions related to transgender victims.
There will no longer be any federal crime data on transgender Americans.
There will no longer be any federal crime data on transgender Americans.
March 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Employees at the National Crime Victimization Survey--the federal government's team for gathering crime data on victims, twice a year--have been ordered to remove all questions related to transgender victims.
There will no longer be any federal crime data on transgender Americans.
There will no longer be any federal crime data on transgender Americans.
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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
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“There’s room to disagree on this.”
No, there’s not. Fuck Putin and everyone who supports him.
Slava Ukraini.
No, there’s not. Fuck Putin and everyone who supports him.
Slava Ukraini.
February 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“There’s room to disagree on this.”
No, there’s not. Fuck Putin and everyone who supports him.
Slava Ukraini.
No, there’s not. Fuck Putin and everyone who supports him.
Slava Ukraini.
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The number of US friends who’ve switched to using Signal the last few weeks reminds me of the noticeable shift to Signal among Hong Kongers I knew during the 2019 protests. Not an encouraging data point.
February 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The number of US friends who’ve switched to using Signal the last few weeks reminds me of the noticeable shift to Signal among Hong Kongers I knew during the 2019 protests. Not an encouraging data point.
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From a guy who used to work there: Rachel is a remarkable person and the best TV news talent there is. If she says something is fucked up, it is. Getting rid of Joy, who dared to see through this fascism bullshit years ago and had the gall of occasionally being funny about it, is dumb.
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From a guy who used to work there: Rachel is a remarkable person and the best TV news talent there is. If she says something is fucked up, it is. Getting rid of Joy, who dared to see through this fascism bullshit years ago and had the gall of occasionally being funny about it, is dumb.
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I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
theonion.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them