I took a sample of advertisers who appear on Sinclair stations' online broadcasts. I'm going to reach out.

I think the lesson of Jimmy Kimmel's return is that complaining works and is actually a key tool against authoritarianism

Part of me almost thinks that one legal approach to justice after this administration may be the use of extradition. Pack these guys off to the countries they have wronged and let them decide what justice is.

I hope Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger are haunted to the end of their days for their technical work to make this happen

We in the West don't see them, but REAL PEOPLE in drought and conflict zones have been killed by Musk. It's not over. DOGE is a death machine, still rolling.

It's become normal now to see complete garbage on government websites but this one still surprises me

This is such a good talk. I'm not a cyber person, but the story is clear and plays out like something from a movie. The big one, so ridiculous that I'm worried I misunderstood it, is that the "fake signal" app that Hegseth et al. were using exposed everyone's unencrypted messages online.

"destroy the systems that actually work, then demand magic solutions when the problem inevitably resurfaces"

it is *infuriating* to listen to RFK Jr. slander CDC workers — including his comments that they kill children — when this is the way his stacked, handpicked panel handles the actual responsibility of children’s health

After DOGE fired half the GSA they are replacing us with ICE. ICE will lead raids from the offices where we used to build software. Maybe they will lock immigrant families up in our offices. A terrified child will struggle to sleep on the floor of my office. Folks, I don't know how to process that.

Monopoly and fascism go hand in hand. We aren't free if our public discourse is controlled by authoritarians and oligarchs that bend the knee to them It’s time to break up Sinclair, Nexstar, and big media companies. And repeal the ’96 Telecom Act that let these companies merge

The COMEDY IS NOW LEGAL people are using the literal US government to silence comedians

The recent antivax terrorist attack against the CDC only killed one person directly, but the number indirectly victimized by diminished public health capacity will probably be incalculable

In personal news, I have started working at @freedom.press on the team @securedrop.org which is software that whistleblowers use to anonymously send documents to journalists. This is exciting and meaningful to me because:

"I don't know how we get out of this without hurting huge numbers of people"

Hackers is among the queerest movies ever made. It was a beacon to a generation of queer kids who probably didn't know they were queer, looking for belonging and purpose.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Looks like vaccines.gov is broken and unusable; it throws a zip code error for all zip codes. Now millions of Americans have only a patchwork of private-sector tools to search for vaccines.

I hope I have given fidelity, and that everyone viscerally understands: You will have to come through me.

He literally ran a "professor watchlist"

I apparently missed this story a week ago, but it gives me feelings. I've been through border checkpoints in China where you can't pass with a photo of the Dalai Lama. Is that what the US is becoming? A place were portraits are illegal?

"It means officers can rely on little more than a person being in the parking lot of a Home Depot and speaking Spanish to question someone about their immigration status." laist.com/news/supreme...

I think this is just Tesla / Musk propaganda. The SEC filing contains a big escape hatch that will let Musk claim victory even if he does not deliver any robots and robotaxis. He's not "forced" to do anything.

I was in the courtroom when a DHS lawyer tried to argue that filming ICE equals encouraging incitement of violence. A) Press didn't do that. B) He denied DHS did things we caught on video. Which ... proves why press needs to film police/ICE/DHS. Thanks for making our point for us, DHS lawyer!

"In recent months, ICE officers have knocked phones out of the hands of those recording them, pulled weapons on people photographing or videotaping them, and even arrested U.S. citizens for filming them."

When DOGE strips the security from your personal data, civil servants blow the whistle not because we are obsessed with rules (ok a little) but because people like this will take advantage

A lot of people who "are country" are just fans of country western music and other symbols, with no real connection to rurality

Pro-democracy, pro-immigrant, pro-science people are flying the American flag. Seems like we're on the brink of taking this symbol away from the antis. Which we should. Here's the streets of Berkeley, CA.

When everything is broken, why does Wikipedia still work? "because disputes on Wikipedia are won or lost based on who has better followed Wikipedia process, every dispute becomes an opportunity to reiterate the project’s rules and principles."

Feels like we are crossing some new line here

Read this whole thread. I'll add that I find the "America has always been morally irredeemable" to be one of the most pernicious forms of doomerism you find on this site bc if thats true, then what the fuck are you doing with your poasting if this place was never worth fighting for from the get go?

All I remember from P.E. and sports is brutality. The locker room was daily unsupervised homophobic violence, and the actual sports part wasn't much better. This is counterproductive to creating healthy and athletic people. So obviously RFK Jr wants to bring it back.

Shout-out to the 11% of Americans who think it's completely unacceptable to be nude at a nudist beach

I’ve not stopped thinking about the CDC shooting, but it seems to have completely disappeared from the media & from public consciousness in general. Excellent thread below:

No amount of masculinity, bravery, skill or sacrifice will ever earn the respect of fascism. Firefighters, cops, and soldiers have all been thrown under the bus.

They cannot handle criticism

This is another way of saying that the "National Design Studio" is fake DOGE does not actually write software. They only write press releases, steal data, cancel grants, and fire people. They will never do a "historic mission to redesign government websites."

Amen to this. I wrote about this problem in "Artificial Unintelligence" in 2018; it's only gotten worse in the AI era.

CDC workers just went outside for a little while to wish farewell to their leadership who are being forced out. It's not "a walkout" like a work stoppage. They care too much about their work for that.

The decision to quit vs stay to fight but also become complicit is a very painful decision. I feel lucky I just got fired rather than have to agonize over it. Synchronized quitting is a powerful choice and I'm sure the top people at the CDC didn't come to it lightly.

CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.

"Trump officials are literally searching through lists of contracts and research grants for taboo words like 'diversity,' 'female,' and 'ethnicity' to target them for cancellation."

Concessions that allow fascists to accumulate more power will never keep us safe

Not all married blondes are fascist. I hope you can understand.

We are going to have to fight hard "A new reconstruction to fix the Trump era will likely involve a degree of use of state power akin to Trump’s actions now"

Seeing stories like this, a lot of people say: "The laws don't matter. No one is enforcing them so they're not worth the paper they're written on." That's doomerism. The fact is, federal law hindered the bad guys a lot in this case. We should put more teeth into these laws. They matter. 🧵

Like how "fast fashion" has magnified shopping addictions focused on clothes, changes in manufacturing (of guns and of paranoia) have magnified the shopping addictions focused on guns

My heart goes out to these feds at the CDC. How are they supposed to continue to serve the public when their boss wants the public dead? When they aren't protected from physical violence in their workplace? Public health should be the solution to health misinformation, not the cause