John Skiles Skinner
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Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE đź”—
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How did we ever let this man pretend to be a genius
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And 2) If you're trying to find the "mole" who's "leaking" information to the press, you've already lost the plot. People at well-functioning organizations are not flooding reporters' inboxes with inside information. And it's almost NEVER "one disgruntled employee" (btw, we can tell the difference)
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ICE is moustache-twirling villainy. Next they will be foreclosing on a orphanage and tying a woman to the train tracks.
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I just got $35 dollars in the Facebook class action lawsuit. Meaning Facebook and Cambridge Analytica used my data to psychologically manipulate voters, turn our country fascist, end public health, end antitrust enforcement, & drown us in scams. They get an enshittifed forever-empire and I get $35.
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Nuremberg was chosen for the trails in part because the Nazis built propaganda architecture there
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How long until the misogynist subtext of demolishing the East Wing becomes text?
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16 days ago
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Don Moynihan
17 days ago
The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
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"The building unjustly remains in the federal government's hands—and the people have a right to know exactly how that happened."
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16 days ago
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This revenge working group apparently targets mainly members of Trump's own prior administration. Trump once shared a podium with Anthony Fauci and boasted about his ratings; now Fauci is an enemy. The current working group members probably are its future targets.
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The wealthy worldwide are trying to wriggle out of the social contract and all the rest of us are slowly learning hardball contract negotiation
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Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"
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18 days ago
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Official 50501 SF ❌👑
18 days ago
Roughly 100-150k said it loud and with joy and determination. Thank you for being one of them!!
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To punish them for complaining about extrajudicial murder
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19 days ago
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan
20 days ago
This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.
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My mom too
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John Collins
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I like how they are carrying American flags, but not attacking police with them.
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Nurses care for all people
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San Francisco says NO KINGS
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Is there a database of Trump administration crimes? Violations of administrative law like the Antideficiency Act, Hatch Act, and Privacy Act are pretty hard for most people to remember. Seems like we should be cataloging them somewhere.
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Bobby Kogan
23 days ago
The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.
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50 years of history, and axed by Elon Musk without Congress
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Thomas Lecaque
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Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.
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Joyce Park
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Guess they fired everybody who knows how to write a decent SQL query.
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Techbro billionaires successfully hid their fascism even from the high-level people they worked with directly
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Estonia is way, way better than the US at digital governance and I think we should be inspired that. Or maybe embarrassed? Anything instead of getting worse on purpose.
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27 days ago
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A private business using a .gov domain. Where are the lawsuits? Can someone file one on behalf of the 75 million people who did not vote for Trump every time they do something unconstitutional?
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A new government website literally called "TrumpRX.gov" that uses an AI-generated American flag missing stars 🤦 Oh and on a second look, it also has an inconsistent number of stripes. Trump's name and face are the new symbols of America apparently, the old ones are getting blurry.
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Cynthia Brumfield
27 days ago
Trying to get more details on this but remember that Russell Vought’s Project 2025 called for demolishing CISA and moving it into the Department of Transportation.
www.csoonline.com/article/3477...
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Eric 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
27 days ago
In addition to cleaning house at the CDC today, they’ve “RIF’d” CISA as well. It’s telling what they’ve decided are “Democrat-oriented” agencies. Unsettling thread on the consequences of CISA’s decimation 👇
bsky.app/profile/skil...
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Also this breach happened before the layoffs and when *everything was fully staffed*. Can you imagine whats happening now.
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Charlotte Thomas, MLS
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Enterprise IT acquisition has been troubled for years; GDIT fumbling it is no more surprising than when Oracle does it, and the Federal government hiring development teams violates a sacred tenet of the Great God Reagan that Thou Shalt Outsource Critical Infrastructure
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I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. đź§µ Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.
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The administration has added another layer of Orwellian vandalism to the DOJ Civil Rights website.
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28 days ago
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🇨🇦 sophialarkrose.bsky.social
28 days ago
I really think the US should consider what it glorifies in its popular entertainment. I think in particular they should realize the nice handsome men modelling kicking down doors and whirling around with guns, with pretty partners, are actually actors with several multi-million-dollar mansions.
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"The 10th floor is filled with notoriously squalid cells. If an immigrant is summoned to 26 Federal’s courtrooms, there is no guarantee they will leave with their freedom." The Jacob K. Javits Building is where I started my federal career. It has become a hunting ground, a prison.
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It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell.
Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/ice-deportations-immigration-trump-new-york-city.html
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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Oh so the administration plans to implement fascism without paying anyone? Excited to see how that all comes together
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OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance
An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/10/omb-deletes-reference-law-guaranteeing-backpay-furloughed-feds-shutdown-guidance/408645/
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I dunno if I'm the last one to hear about this? But the reason the president is sending the *National Guard* to Portland is because the city mailed the government's landlord...a zoning violation notice? They are sending in the troops to avoid "a monthly code enforcement fee"??
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It is sad that "Rationalism" became a tech bro cult because there was a really good observation at the root of it: preferring beliefs because they are true is actually kind of uncommon.
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The photo of four lights is a nice reference
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about 1 month ago
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Linka von Sofia, Auntie
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www.courtwatch.news/p/exclusive-...
Found via
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- I wish there was more nonspecialist reporting on this, because it seems important! WTF is going on?
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Exclusive: Chief Justice “Stonewalls Congress" on PACER Hack, Senator Says
The Courts sidestep a congressional request for independent review. Post-hack procedures have significantly reduced transparency in the judicial system.
https://www.courtwatch.news/p/exclusive-chief-justice-stonewalls-congress-on-pacer-hack-senator-says
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The fight I was born for: Trump vs me as a dorky child numismatist who has never heard of any federal law other than the Thayer amendment of 1866
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Signal is encrypted but that's no help if you just show your phone screen to everyone
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Techdirt
about 1 month ago
Trump Administration Stomps All Over The Hatch Act With Shutdown Website Banners And Away Messages The Hatch Act of 1939 is a beautiful piece of legislation. It disallows all kinds of things, like bribing voters with jobs to vote a certain way, as well as limiting any campaign activity by federal…
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Trump Administration Stomps All Over The Hatch Act With Shutdown Website Banners And Away Messages
The Hatch Act of 1939 is a beautiful piece of legislation. It disallows all kinds of things, like bribing voters with jobs to vote a certain way, as well as limiting any campaign activity by federal workers. Another thing it does is to prohibit partisan political activity in the course of a staff member's federal employment duties. An IRS agent, for instance, can't tell someone going through an audit that their taxes are so high because "the Democrat or Republican party sucks and they hate you." The idea is that we want federal employees carrying out their duties in a non-partisan manner.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/trump-administration-stomps-all-over-the-hatch-act-with-shutdown-website-banners-and-away-messages/
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"Unsure of which systems are still safe from foreign spies, judicial officials have elected to revert to paper filing... It's unclear how these filings will ever become public." Huh if only the government had some kind of computer people to fix this
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Exclusive: Chief Justice “Stonewalls Congress" on PACER Hack, Senator Says
The Courts sidestep a congressional request for independent review. Post-hack procedures have significantly reduced transparency in the judicial system.
https://www.courtwatch.news/p/exclusive-chief-justice-stonewalls-congress-on-pacer-hack-senator-says
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Spotted at the Billings, MT airport: Your rights, redacted
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My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
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Darkly ironic that the FTC's mission to bust scammers *pretending* to be Elon Musk has been curtailed by actions set in motion by the real Elon Musk, who is also a scammer. The FTC scam reporting tool (
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All civil servants are nonpartisan by law
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"It’s not the journalists’ burden to keep the government’s secrets for it,"
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The Pentagon Press Gears Up for a Fight
“None of us are signing this pledge,” said one reporter.
https://www.cjr.org/news/pentagon-press-corps-hegseth-pledge.php
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