Founder of @stocs_global - building the Ai Gateway to Global Resale. Ex-Journo, 4th gen Forest fan, ex-Editor of The Trent Times @NFFC fanzine. Views my own.

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Joined February 2009
this is literally a simpsons bit
DO NOT LEAVE THE VOTING BOOTH UNTIL YOU ARE SURE THE MACHINE REGISTERED YOUR 'DEMOCRAT' VOTE. Many people are reporting they voted DEMOCRAT and it clicked back to REPUBLICAN. A voter says it took 4 times before it stayed on DEMOCRAT. The fix is in! spotlightpa.org/news/2025/10…
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Watch. This is being reported in multiple states.
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This video is from Indiana's 2018 midterms, showing a calibration issue on a voting machine for candidates Jim Baird (R) and Tobi Beck (D), who last ran against each other then. It was a reported local malfunction. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… jconline.com/story/news/pol…
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There is a very disturbing trend being seen in early voting. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio are reporting difficulties getting the machines to accept democratic votes. The machines change them back to Republican unless the voter persists, pressing several times to get the correct vote to go through. Check your machine, check to see that it accepted the correct vote. Make sure your voice counts.
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Anthropic will be very surprised to learn that the US government can’t direct a private company to make or not make particular decisions.
Replying to @lrozen
Rubio: “The important point is we cannot direct a private company as to the decisions they make or not make.  What I can tell you with certainty is the President of the United States nor anyone in our system ever requested that any changes to that system be made, and that’s what we said repeatedly.”
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BREAKING: Democrats are suing Trump and his Justice Department, alleging the administration is attempting to interfere with the midterms through a “persistent stream of threats and intimidation” directed at state and local election officials, while pressuring states to purge voters from their rolls.
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This. Understand that, if Elon Musk truly ordered the slowdown of Starshield, a private corporation, SpaceX, acting at the behest of its CEO, effectively dictated aspects of another country's defense operations by restricting a critical service on which its military depends. This seriously compromises the reliability and credibility of American defense companies and certainly makes SpaceX deeply suspect as a defense contractor. The question remains whether the ultimate order came from the White House (as suggested by a separate Reuters report) or whether Musk acted independently. It is clear that this entire episode needs to be investigated, and I strongly urge Congress to return from recess. The matter is too urgent to wait until after November 3. If the WSJ reporting is accurate, this is yet another sordid episode in this administration's record. Should the next administration be Democratic, Elon Musk must be investigated and, if misconduct is established, held accountable. The reliability and trustworthiness of both Musk and SpaceX are now very much in question. Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter said wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli… via @WSJ
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Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a version of SpaceX’s Starlink that Ukraine has relied on in its war against Russia, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter. Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, last week “capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network,” the Journal reported. The decision left some Ukrainian drones virtually inoperable, according to the newspaper. More details: cnb.cx/4i9zcuq
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Elon Musk has ordered a slowdown of military-grade Starlink assets used by Ukraine in its war against Russia, according to a new report. Read more: forbes.com/sites/antoniopequ… 📸: Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images
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Steve Witkoff ran away when I confronted him about his financial ties to Russia. His real estate company has been bankrolled directly by a former advisor to Vladimir Putin's sovereign wealth fund. He’s been making pro russia statements for months.
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Kudos to the camera man. He decided NOPE - ain’t letting him pull this shit. Not today. Not on my watch.
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That’s an outrageous goal from Lamine Yamal. Take a bow.
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BREAKING: A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in the midterms, per WaPo
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How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?
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ELON FANS WON'T LIKE THIS ONE... BUT HERE ARE 10 BIG THINGS ELON PROMISED THAT NEVER HAPPENED: The New York Times went through 15 years of his posts and interviews. He made 602 promises with a date on them. Only 1 in 5 happened on time. Here are some of them: 1. In 2015 he said Teslas would fully drive themselves in 2 or 3 years. 11 years later, you still have to keep your eyes on the road. 2. In 2016 he said a Tesla would drive itself from LA to New York by the end of 2017. It never did. 3. In 2019 he said there would be 1 million robotaxis by 2020. Today there's a small service in Austin. With a safety person sitting inside. 4. In 2017 he said the new Tesla Roadster would come out in 2020. They just showed it this month. Now it's coming in 2028. 5. For years he talked about a cheap $25,000 Tesla. Then he dropped it and called the idea "pointless." 6. In 2016 he said SpaceX would send a ship to Mars by 2018. Later he said people would be on Mars by 2024. Nobody has gone. Not even an empty rocket. 7. In 2013 he said Hyperloop would take you from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes. What we got is Teslas driving through a tunnel in Las Vegas. 8. When he bought Twitter, he said a team would be set up before any big decisions on banned accounts. That team never showed up. 9. With DOGE he promised $2 trillion in government cuts. Studies found it saved almost nothing. 10. He said his AI company would build AI smarter than humans by 2025. Still waiting. Yes, he's also done crazy things. Rockets that land themselves. Starlink. Making electric cars normal. But even he admits he only expects to hit his deadlines about half the time. So today he posted that he'll give one SpaceX share to every kid in America next year. That's around 73 million kids. He hasn't said how. Or who gets it. Or who pays the tax. Save this post. We'll check back in 2028. Written by: @carlmoon
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When you hear Trump's team brag about how much they have given to Ukraine, here are the actual numbers.
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My electronic ballot machine flipped my vote to a Republican candidate three times. I clicked on Jon Rosenthal, but then the machine switched it to Bo French. I had to click Jon’s name three times to successfully check out with a blue ballot. Reported it, but WTF!
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"BOMBSHELL NEW UPDATE: "THE INSIDE JOB: It just got worse for Elon Musk." CREDIBILITY: DESTROYED." On January 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order giving Elon Musk's DOGE "full and prompt access" to every federal agency's systems. Unelected and never Senate-confirmed, Musk sent in young staffers. Edward Coristine, 19 — self-styled "Big Balls" on LinkedIn — was fired from a cybersecurity internship for leaking company data. Marko Elez, 25, received read-write access to the Treasury's payment system; the Treasury later admitted in court it was granted "inadvertently." He resigned after racist posts ("normalize Indian hate") surfaced; Musk rehired him, and Trump endorsed it. They accessed the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which moves $6 trillion a year — 88% of all federal payments, including Social Security checks, Medicare, tax refunds, and veterans' benefits. Systems held names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, birthplaces, addresses, phones, emails, and bank details. A federal judge listed every item. Laws violated include the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. § 552a), barring disclosure of records without written consent; 26 U.S.C. § 6103, making unauthorized taxpayer data disclosure a felony (up to 5 years); 18 U.S.C. § 1030, criminalizing unauthorized access to government computers; and the Appointments Clause (Article II, Section 2), requiring Senate confirmation for such power. Musk was never confirmed. Connecticut's Attorney General called it "the largest data breach in U.S. history." Nineteen states sued. A federal judge called DOGE's operation "chaotic and haphazard" and ordered all copies destroyed. The Supreme Court allowed continued access to Social Security records 6-3, including medical and family court files. In January 2026, the DOJ admitted DOGE moved sensitive Social Security data to unauthorized Cloudflare servers; the agency cannot determine what was shared or if it remains. Whistleblower Charles Borges, SSA's chief data officer, was forced to resign: 300 million Americans' records exposed — "a generational problem" and "national security risk." Unchangeable data like mother's maiden name and birthplace means permanent exposure. The "fraud hunt" was cover; the GAO found solid evidence for only 4% of claimed savings. The same week DOGE began, Trump fired 17 inspectors general — five investigating Musk's companies. The Labor IG had 17 open Tesla and SpaceX cases; the Agriculture IG was escorted out while probing Neuralink monkey deaths. SpaceX defense contracts then tripled to $5.9 billion. Musk co-leads the Pentagon's weapons-buying study while holding $6.4 billion in Pentagon contracts. He gutted the CFPB — which polices digital payments — while building a payments business on X. Trump signed the order, gave Musk a White House office, endorsed the rehire, and his administration fought every lawsuit to the Supreme Court, securing the right to keep the data. Congress must investigate with subpoenas and hearings. Democrats must not let this die. An unelected billionaire's team obtained 300 million Americans' Social Security numbers, and the sitting president held the door open.
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In a nutshell
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🇺🇸 Antony Blinken: “95% of economic aid to Ukraine NEVER left the United States.” The story about $350 billion supposedly being sent to Ukraine is an outrageous lie. Former Special Envoy Keith Kellogg also called this claim FAKE! The United States provided Ukraine with only $65.9 billion in military assistance. That was under Biden! And not a single cent under Trump! That orange bastard will eventually have to answer for all his lies and manipulation. Why are Americans still putting up with this disgrace before the entire world?! 🤷🏼
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Cancel all Elon Musk contracts.
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