John Skiles Skinner
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Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE 🔗
https://skiles.blue/
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Renee (paix120)
11 days ago
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?
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Marisa Kabas
11 days ago
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
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Kevin Riggle
12 days ago
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
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"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.
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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.
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Tyler King
14 days ago
At a time when AI tools make it easier than ever to carry out cyber attacks, the admin has decimated the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency responsible for defending critical infrastructure.
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Jeremy Hsu
14 days ago
"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..."
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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...
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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.
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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?
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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-breach-doge/
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Don Moynihan
14 days ago
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."
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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.
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They might be realizing they are the fall guys
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Gabrielle
16 days ago
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.
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When they say "efficiency," "merit", "performance," or "excellence" they actually mean ideological conformity + random chance
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gwen howerton
16 days ago
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
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"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.'"
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An astonishingly literal example of racist discrimination. These people carefully set up a racism computer and pressed Go.
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Alt18F
24 days ago
It’s been one year since the elimination of 18F. 🧵
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Kasey Kagawa
25 days ago
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
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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.
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Melody Schreiber
28 days ago
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.
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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘
28 days ago
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.
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Lux 🤷🏻♀️ Alptraum
28 days ago
I can’t even process how upset this makes me
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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸
28 days ago
Once again, every time Musk appears in public he should be hounded by incessant questions about his mass murder of children.
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"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"
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What Elon Has Done
Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/
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With thousands of eyes on the details of these documents, the administration just doesn't have enough competent people to conduct a coverup.
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Lisa Fazio
29 days ago
"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.”
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Alondra Nelson
29 days ago
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?
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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.
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Let's talk about the history of "the gay mafia" 🧵
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
about 1 month ago
“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.”
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David Ho
about 1 month ago
We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.
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ChristopherE
about 1 month ago
Indeed. How fucking redundant
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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."
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Lucha
about 1 month ago
"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."
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
about 1 month ago
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
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Repression as a service
A manual for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked on Jan. 30 via 404 Media. Let’s look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we’ve ...
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/repression-as-a-service/
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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
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Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7DPSP65JA
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Logan Grendel
about 1 month ago
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.
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David Adams
about 1 month ago
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.
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Travis
about 1 month ago
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.
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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
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Noah Berlatsky
about 1 month ago
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.
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Emily Dolhansky
about 1 month ago
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
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@jacobharr.is
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Emily Dolhansky
about 1 month ago
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”!
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Eric Blair
about 1 month ago
Lincoln 1851 "I am not a Know-Nothing. As a nation, we began by declaring "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics."
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Jerry BadThings
about 1 month ago
Britons + Irish are only 11.71% of the population. Black people are 12.4%. Other whites are 49.92%. Hispanics (include white/mixed) are 18.18%. Musk is 100% nazi.
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My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.
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What the Trump administration is teaching America: anyone who follows the rules is punished
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Mark Histed
about 1 month ago
In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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