Andy Watson

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." - CLR James, The Black Jacobins

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

Throwing this out there but I have a lot of experience doing code security audits for complex platforms and if anyone is looking to hire an auditor because of recent... events... they should let me know.

NEW: US lawmakers say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding a secret court opinion about the surveillance of Americans, even as it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

This is the correct interpretation of Mathew 22. To love God is to love your neighbor as yourself.

This week’s newsletter is about friendships ending. Read it, and then maybe reach out to someone you haven’t reached out to in a while. Or walk away from someone who has you doing all the work. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

He'll be fine. His personal hero was also thrown in jail, and used the time to get some writing done.

oh wait nvm this makes it better

Don't tell me about the number of GOP politicians that denounce this. Because this is the same exact energy that he came into office on in 2016. Ride with your boy! Don't switch sides now! You loved this abuser energy when diesel was $2 a gallon and you could buy fertilizer.

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

The Federal Agency for Finding Out (FAFO)

VICTORY! EFF, our co-counsel and our clients have won our lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. A judge agreed OPM violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. The court will decide the remedy at a later date.

The Trump administration has diverted $86 million in teen pregnancy prevention funds from local programs to an AI-led firm with ties to a top HHS official.

fixthesupremecourt.org/posts/christ... Hours Before Christa Pike's Execution, the Supreme Court Lifted a Stay Without a Word. Then the State Botched It.

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

I will always remember my high school German teacher, a diminutive Austrian man who was quite proper, telling us about how the ß in German is two S’s and coming to America and wondering why everyone was drinking “Mr. Pissss”

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I've reached out to the campaign of Greene-Placentia's opponent, Republican incumbent Abe Hamadeh, for comment on her rape allegations. Will update if he responds.

I have listened to this album about 34 million times. Night Swimming got me through my sophomore year of college.

This one is doing the rounds

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Fun fact, if you have a dog, it's probably smarter than the president of the United States

As long as it's non-alcoholic, it's fine with me. Mt Dew might be an issue

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

Impeach. Hegseth. Now.

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow.

Oh boy www.propublica.org/article/dona...

The Justices: Ethics & Recusals Ethics and recusal records for all nine sitting Supreme Court justices, sourced, and why each record matters for the case for a binding ethics code. https://fixthesupremecourt.org/justices/

Samuel Alito: Ethics & Recusals Samuel Alito's ethics record: the undisclosed Paul Singer fishing trip, the insurrection flags he wouldn't explain, and cases he refused to recuse from. https://fixthesupremecourt.org/justices/samuel-alito/

John Roberts: Ethics & Recusals John Roberts's ethics record: his wife's $10.3 million in recruiting commissions, the ethics code he wrote with no enforcement, and an open disbarment complaint. https://fixthesupremecourt.org/justices/john-roberts/

Neil Gorsuch: Ethics & Recusals Neil Gorsuch's ethics record: a Colorado property sale to a law firm CEO he never disclosed, and a belated recusal benefiting patron Philip Anschutz. https://fixthesupremecourt.org/justices/neil-gorsuch/

andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

CDC’s 9/11 world trade center health program was one of the first things this regime purged. just something to remember when republicans get really into the performative nationalism this week

Here is Trump on 9/11 bragging that Trump Tower is now the tallest building in Manhattan

Supreme Court Term Limits and Court Packing Supreme Court term limits and court packing explained: what each proposal does, the current bills in Congress, constitutionality, and what the polling shows. https://fixthesupremecourt.org/term-limits-and-court-packing/

It was missing something.

Next, @eff.org. The team has been on the forefront of the fight for digital civil rights for *decades*, like calling out the risks of Flock cameras, ensuring that those who seek reproductive healthcare can have secure communications, and suing DOGE in federal court to protect us all. eff.org/anil

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

fixthesupremecourt.org/posts/white-... The Chief Justice Said It's Illegal. The Other Five Said Nobody's Allowed to Ask.

Formica called on ICE agents to think about their actions morally. “When this is over and we win – when good wins – you do not want to be remembered for the rest of your life as someone who did such evil. Keep that in mind. You will answer for it someday.” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-09...

Meanwhile, I'm still working Who's getting "left behind" now bitch

That’s a number awfully close to “just 11,780 votes” that the Trump regime could delete in one go.

I thought this said 53 countries at first and I was like "IN FIVE DAYS???"

Teens are hiding in snow banks and devouring wandering travelers. They call it yetimaxxing and parents are up in arms over this dangerous new trend.

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