Sasse's signature legislation was the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," a nonsense bill designed to gratify a conservative conspiracy theory. He wasted his whole life on culture war lying.

The surveillance state is here, and it's not here to protect us.

Further building blocks in the Trump / Silicon Valley data juggernaut, for automating loyalty tests and repression as a service. OPM was the federal agency used by Musk to send his "5 bullet points" emails. It remains compromised.

A lot of men are discovering (unwittingly) that they have never been good partners to women, and moreover they have never even seen a good male partner. Generations upon generations without a role model.

What's the deal with boondoggle government contracts, like $100 million for a software system that doesn't actually work? It's not an imponderable mystery. Usually, it's simply because no government employee has expertise in the thing the government is buying. So they get taken advantage of.

Right: Why might the videos cause reputational damage? Do we, the public, not deserve to hear exactly what was done with our data, money, our science? Why does their incompetence or lack of care deserve anonymity?

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

It will enrage but not surprise you to learn that the guy whose job it was to check targets to make sure they’re not schools before we bomb them got fired during the transition to the Trump administration

"because it explicitly says LGBTQ" You know those videos on how to identify illegal discrimination a new job makes you watch during your first week? This is more than that. More illegal than the textbook example.

As a personal act of resistance to fascism, lately I consolidated all my vaccination history into a single spreadsheet, then I looked up vaccination recommendations and calculated what shots I was overdue for. Then I scheduled them. It felt really empowering and reassuring.

"The former DOGE software engineer told co-workers at his new job that he 'possessed two tightly restricted databases of U.S. citizens’ information' and was planning to use the information at his new company, according to the report..."

Thank you @lorenzofb.bsky.social for accurately reporting that the Social Security Administration is *still* under the control of DOGE. This information is needed for the story to make sense. techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/d...

Privacy was the norm at government agencies before Trump 2. It's hard to explain how hard Musk and DOGE busted through all the safeguards.

Events so far: Whistleblower @chuckborges.bsky.social claims DOGE kids illegally copied your Social Security data Tech bros at SSA deny it Then they admit it Another whistleblower claims DOGE kid took the data to a new job at a private company Tech bros at SSA deny it What's next?

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad: "The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

Good question here. I wish the strategic ambiguity of DOGE had been more widely reported, because that was the source of its power. Now that DOGE bros are showing up in court, we'll see that intentional ambiguity stripped away and we'll find out who gets left holding the bag.

They might be realizing they are the fall guys

Yeah, I know what DEI is. It's like, girls who aren't into me, and like, gay stuff? And like, when people make me uncomfortable?You know. That whole bucket.

When they say "efficiency," "merit", "performance," or "excellence" they actually mean ideological conformity + random chance

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

"When she asked why they were taking her information, her video captured a masked agent responding, 'Cause we have a nice little database, and now you're considered a domestic terrorist.'"

An astonishingly literal example of racist discrimination. These people carefully set up a racism computer and pressed Go.

It’s been one year since the elimination of 18F. 🧵

The whole right wing movement is animated by 1 conspiracy theory: that white people are all secretly in agreement with them, and are being suppressed by a woke conspiracy Miller and ICE occupations, Carr/Ellison and right wing media, DOGE and USAID, it's all looking for the off switch for the woke

I guess we are doing "war on fraud" now. To this administration, fraud isn't an act -- it's a kind of person. A war on fraud is a war on American people.

I'll be honest, I'm pretty sure I have PTSD from this. I still wake up thinking about the article I need to write to save USAID.

and it cost us money to burn it. EU countries offered to take over the contraceptive stockpile at no cost to us, and incinerating it was costly because it was medical the heritage foundation insisted we spend more to burn it rather than send it to war zones jail. every. one. of. them.

I can’t even process how upset this makes me

Once again, every time Musk appears in public he should be hounded by incessant questions about his mass murder of children.

"500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives"

With thousands of eyes on the details of these documents, the administration just doesn't have enough competent people to conduct a coverup.

"We have this narrative that explicit misogyny is something from the ’50s and ’60s, and what we have now is like implicit bias and microaggressions. I think this made clear that explicit misogyny is still out there in science and in academia, it’s just perhaps behind closed doors.”

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Most of us have consumed science fiction about sentient robots and how we should be nice to them. This is now being used against us by tech monopolists.

Let's talk about the history of "the gay mafia" 🧵

“Any time the Trump administration says ‘AI’ ... what you should hear is ‘repression as a service,’” @skiles.blue writes. - AI as an excuse to consolidate data. - AI to execute orders that humans would refuse. The more data the admin. consolidates, “the further we travel down this dangerous road.”

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

Indeed. How fucking redundant

We're all used to the absurdity by now, but it's wild how many headlines every day are just like: "New study finds US taxpayers are the ones who pay US taxes. Trump administration threatens retributive violence."

"Any time the Trump administration says “AI” or anything about software or data, what you should hear is “repression as a service” This has two parts: AI as an excuse to consolidate data. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse."

Where will ICE strike next? A leaked Palantir user manual obtained by @404media.co reveals how “aliens specifically targeted by Leadership” are attacked at the touch of a button. “Like Uber for authoritarians. Let’s call it repression as a service,” FPF’S @skiles.blue writes.

I just watched Stephen Colbert's segment on why his network and the US government won't let him interview James Talarico and it's like watching that show-within-a-show in V for Vendetta

I'm seeing a trend of people beginning to hate/give up on social media & the internet in general. I'm asking you to consider that it's by design bc we get so much collective power here, too. One of the things in The Files is how they turned many of these spaces into right-wing cesspools on purpose.

America’s culture *is* the ever-shifting multicultural blend and *always has been* and *that* is why people come here, and why we continue to welcome people from around the world to shape it into the future. There will always be Know-Nothing immigrant haters, and we will always fight back.

Like, USAID still legally exists, still receives budget from Congress, and the few dozen remaining employees (who work at State) still have usaid.gov emails and all our systems and databases still exist. It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.

I assume the plan is to "analyze" voter files the same way DOGE treated federal grants: prompt an LLM with racist conspiracy theories and cancel everything the machine picks

like, even people who hate musk and are criticizing him tend not to bring it up. musk has done a lot of evil things, but this is the one that puts him in a class with hitler and stalin and pol pot.

sooo is anyone tracking that Amanda Scales is apparently back at OPM trying to scale up Tech Force (a DOGE-led copycat of 18F that saw folks like @skiles.blue pushed out of govt)? cc: @jacobharr.is

it’s pretty clear DOGE employees make a big show of saying they’re leaving government to obfuscate what they’re actually still doing within government and the media aids this effort by reporting stories such as “DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ anymore”!