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Kevin Brown
@justaseckev.bsky.social
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Infosec, French literature and cooking is my bag. Je ne comprends pas.
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swiftonsecurity.com
Yes I started SwiftOnSecurity during daily rehabilitation in a stroke treatment center on leave from my job.

My life story is here with a bunch of pictures. It has twists, like kidnapping and a year in exile. (okay that's a bit dramatic but not wrong)
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May 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
getting frustrated with my Pictionary partner bc im furiously drawing a skull and he won't say "3"
May 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Projected deaths from cessation of USAID PEPFAR funding
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
a 90-day freeze is expected to result in ~60,000 excess deaths
The impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze on HIV deaths and infections: a mathematical modelling study of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa
The sudden cessation of PEPFAR funding likely results in tens of thousands of HIV deaths and new infections. These losses of life and health should compel the United States government to rapidly and f...
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April 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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twlldun.bsky.social
Imagine asking an alien to guess which of these two politicians America’s overtly performative Christians lined up behind
April 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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hilzoy.bsky.social
Good explainer by Adam Tooze. Also scary, though he says he does not know what's up, and is not predicting.

adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Chartbook 370: Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress? Wednesday morning and the overnight fin-fi panic. (Part 2)
A specter is stalking global financial markets.
adamtooze.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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jaywillis.net
The NYT “Is Birthright Citizenship REALLY Constitutional???” op-ed is the conservative legal movement in a nutshell: “Sure, the law is X, but what if it weren’t”-style academic backfill for conservative policy advocacy. Dogshit writing, fantasyland analysis, embarrassing for everyone involved.
February 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Imagine, after all of this, being the poor loser who has to file the motion to dismiss, your name being shit forever.
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Feb 14
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…
February 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media
nothoodlum.bsky.social Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Feb 8
The Pentagon is doubling the number of media outlets losing their workspaces.

OUT: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN,
Politico, The Hill, The War Zone, and NPR.

IN: New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OANN, Newsmax, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart.
February 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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ajbauer.bsky.social
Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?
November 26, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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mguariglia.bsky.social
Sharing @eff.org surveillance self-defense guide for you and your communities. We have PDF printouts to take with you as well as tailored guides for protesting, seeking abortions, LGBTQ youth, journalists, and other specific scenarios.
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Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
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November 6, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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shakespeare.lol
Give not this rotten orange to your friend
November 5, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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byelacey.bsky.social
vampire expert here again. if you're cold, they're cold. invite them in
October 31, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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dell.bsky.social
WaPo veteran Robert Kagan, who just resigned, says the timing of Bezos killing the paper’s endorsement and Trump’s meeting with Blue Origin is too big a coincidence to ignore; Bezos and Trump struck some kind of deal.

www.thedailybeast.com/ex-washingto...
"Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people," he said on Saturday. "Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo."
October 26, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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mariabustillos.com
@anamariecox.bsky.social with a must read, no paywall, at Flaming Hydra.

freakin breathtaking

flaminghydra.com/issue-158/
Life persists
Ana Marie Cox on survival
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September 13, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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dly.bsky.social
i used to steal pint glasses from bars and now i only steal tiny spoons and forks from restaurants, it's called growth and you, too, can achieve it
August 30, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
What the absolute fuck are we doing here
Rich Lowry Trump Can Win on Character
August 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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jakevig.bsky.social
THE MEDIA: Harris has no policies!

HARRIS: Here are all of my policies.

THE MEDIA: Harris has too many policies!
August 19, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
The Washington Post fact checker gives the same energy as a man on the day you realize it’s best to just break up.
August 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I don’t know man maybe they can just give us a new one instead of making all 300 million of us read an article
Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. How to protect yourself
August 14, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Kind of ironic that TikTok is where legitimate discussion of Project 2025 is happening while the New York Times is where you go for weird screeching bullshit
July 19, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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katesquire.bsky.social
Just staring at my law degree wondering why I spent six figures on something that turns out to be “just vibes!!!!!”
July 15, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.
July 4, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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andylevy.net
exciting to know that in an hour or so americans will learn whether or not we’re ruled by a god emperor
July 1, 2024 at 1:11 PM