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DistrictofAlex
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Previously: Bot hunting and platform integrity. Currently: Infosec, GRC. Reading past the headline. Unwisely sarcastic. Go Orioles!
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Another successful Kavanaugh Stop
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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🙃
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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<3
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Try this one for your next hotel
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Sustained federal support is uncertain as the Trump administration cuts programs related to climate change and disaster resilience. Trump in May proposed cutting $617 million from the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ tribal self-governance and communities programs but did not specify which programs. The Department of Interior said in an email that new grant funding is “under review as part of a broader effort to improve federal spending accountability,” but that the Bureau of Indian Affairs was “helping tribes lay the groundwork for future implementation when funding pathways are clarified.” Other federal money that could help Alaska villages has already been cut. Federal Emergency Management Agency awards to Newtok and Kwigillingok for projects related to relocation didn’t arrive before the administration in April halted billions of dollars in unpaid grants. Trump has also stopped approving state and tribal requests for hazard mitigation funding, a typical add-on that accompanies federal support after major disasters. Even the data that villages need to assess how climate change is affecting them are at risk. The Trump administration has removed information related to climate change from government websites and has fired scientists in charge of the nation’s congressionally mandated climate assessment reports.
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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This is the lesson they've learned from Hasson's arrest. Chilling, indeed.
www.npr.org/2019/02/20/6...
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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We call it a "reverse dril"
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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And that pardon list doesn't cover other criminals they've helped along the way, such as the Tate brothers. Admin used diplomatic capital to bully & pressure the Romanian government to release them, and they returned to the US only for Andrew Tate to abuse his girlfriend
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November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Banner year for JD Vance’s security detail
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Unrelated (I think), but just noticed...what's the deal with this?
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Dipping Oreos in peanut butter is critical to defeating authoritarianism
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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If the scholars, journalists and professional senate watchers are any indicator, it was leadership and/or a collective caucus decision, which makes it even worse
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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You’re doing great, Ted
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Amazing content
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Or jeans. Or Cracker Barrel's logo. Or
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That, per Open Measures, is because right-wing accounts online spotted some of the backlash and turned it into the story. By July 27, the researchers found that conservative personalities started to boost selected posts to suggest that liberals were outraged by the ads. The accounts used this to generate backlash against what they painted as the entire Left crying “racism” about a jeans advertisement. But, as the New York Times reported in August, most of the posts that got presented as representative of a larger political ideology had fewer than 500 views before being amplified. Meanwhile, the amplification efforts were being done by accounts like LibsOfTikTok, which has 4.5 million followers on Twitter. The ability to take these smaller accounts offering criticism and turn them into the stand-ins for the “woke left” allowed the Online Right to generate an entire news cycle about the advertisement and the supposed backlash against it, grabbing mainstream news coverage, including multiple segments on Fox News. The biggest period of conversation about the ad, according to Open Measures, wasn’t the days following its launch, but rather about two weeks later, between July 30 and August 5, when the conservative amplification was at its highest—and culminating in President Donald Trump commenting on the whole situation and saying he “loved” the ad.
October 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Quote: "A lie ain't a side of a story. It's just a lie." - Terry Hanning (character from the television show The Wire)
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Like a light switch
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October 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Playing the greatest hits
October 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM