Sam
Sam
@samcb.bsky.social
just this guy, you know? software engineer working on security. he/him
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It's crazy that they're taking policy ideas from /pol/
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
this makes sense, since we know Biden was president in 2020
MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under Obama TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor M: Who was in office at the time? T: Bush M: No. Obama was in office TAPPER: Not true
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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
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NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.
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In Waltz’s desperation to save his ass, he’s weaving an alternate universe (with lies) where the security breach is far worse. No longer, in his telling, is Signal just vulnerable to a human slip up where you add an unauthorized contact of yours, malicious actors can force their way into your chats.
Wow — Mike Waltz on Fox News suggests Jeffrey Goldberg somehow schemed his way into the Signal group instead of just being invited by accident
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this is a really an unfathomable level of evil “shut off all foreign aid” is of course just as evil but it’s a blunt instrument, where you don’t have to directly face the specific programs you’re killing but these little fucks were manually vetoing PEPFAR time and again
Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains? Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.
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It’s not necessarily the case that Kliger — our new IRS overlord — hates Jews. It’s just that he so often finds himself aligned with anti-Semites. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“Elon Musk is the president now” was underselling it Elon now has significantly more power over this country and everyone in it than any president ever has
they’re going to do it this isn’t theoretical or hypothetical anymore, they are quite literally going to unilaterally stop the federal government from paying contractually obligated debts 1/5 of American GDP now rests on Elon Musk’s personal whims
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“We are watching, in real time, the conversion of constitutional democracy into something darker and more dangerous. To pretend otherwise isn’t prudence—it’s complicity.” www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a...
The NYT reported it finally so now we won't sound nuts to other people when we talk about the coup!
Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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