Mark Malone

To understand Steen's demographic, you have to realize there are people who think a working-class blue-haired barista on minimum wage is the Establishment, while upper-middle-class professional Catholics of multi-generational wealth are the oppressed disenfranchised politically homeless.

Solid journalism

Sídhe is the most amazingly talented linocut print maker I've seen in Ireland. Check them out www.instagram.com/possoms8?igs...

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".

And so it begins.

This speaker at yesterdays Limerick anti-migrant demo asked the assembled crowd if they were 'proud of the people they descended from.'

The demo was literally called by Gerard McNamara, in a green cap beside him.

McNamara bludgeoned his own father to death. A true patriot of Ireland

The National Party, Blighe and Steenson marched in Cork at the weekend under a 'WWG1WGA' banner.

Blighe literally led people around the city with a tricolour scrawled with the imported US QAnon brain-addled conspiracy theory.

These PaYtri0Ts are beyond embarrassment.

Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.

Mark Malone on X: "Quick 🧵of who turned up at the Black Forge to get their photo taken with McGregor last night. Jana Lunden. The American who has orchestrated campaigns of intimidation in school and libraries, working with Ross Lahive who assaults women yet claims she wants to 'protect women.' https://t.co/Gu4GhZrbBa" / X Quick 🧵of who turned up at the Black Forge to get their photo taken with McGregor last night. Jana Lunden. The American who has orchestrated campaigns of intimidation in school and libraries, working with Ross Lahive who assaults women yet claims she wants to 'protect women.' https://t.co/Gu4GhZrbBa

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Good work from

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This is class

Need to be extremely clear that the technical justifications offered in this piece are fucking jibberish. You do not make the WiFi better by adding more APs from another network that is effectively unmanaged in the same spectrum.

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Agreed!

Preliminary thoughts: astonishment.

The judge told the gov't to be prepared to answer four specific questions.

Gov't showed up and refused.

The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.

Post NEXTA V @nexta_tv Subscribe * McGregor Takes the Fight to the White House! "Ireland is being overrun!" - UFC star Conor McGregor slammed his country's government during his St. Patrick's Day visit to Washington. • "Our government is one of zero action and zero accountability. Irish money is spent on overseas issues while illegal immigration ravages our country!" I McGregor's words come as Ireland faces growing protests over migration policies.

Irish rapist

The Trump regime invited a washed up organized crime linked rapist to give a speech about Ireland on St Paddy’s day because of course they did.

On Lawfare Daily, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social spoke to @alexreevegivens.bsky.social, Courtney Lang, and Nema Milaninia about the Paris AI Action Summit, whether it marks a formal pivot away from AI safety to AI security and what an embrace of AI security means for AI governance.

Some boy @johnnyryan.bsky.social. class stuff

We will start seeing people fleeing the US seeking international protection before Trump's presidency ends.

This is great and you should read it:

2/2 #Project2025 training video:

“It’s probably better to walk down the hall, buttonhole a guy ...as opposed to sending him an email and creating a thread that Accountable.US or one of those other groups is going to come back and seek"

@propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social @nicksurgey.bsky.social

USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency The US government’s primary foreign aid organization is losing the vast majority of its staff, forcing the agency’s lifesaving work to screech to a halt.

Elon Musk has slashed USAID workforce from 10,000 to 300 in the space of days...

The decimation leaves just 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, @knibbs.bsky.social reports

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February 4, 2025 Edward R. Martin, Jr. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Patrick Henry Building 601 D Street NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Transmitted via email Re: Threats to prosecute critics of DOGE Dear Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Edward R. Martin, Jr.: We write to raise serious concerns about your recent public statements threatening to prosecute those who "target" or "impede" Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Executive Office of the President. We request that you publicly commit to abide by the First Amendment, which your office is sworn to uphold and Musk himself claims to champion, in any DOGE-related investigations or prosecutions you may pursue. On Monday, you tweeted a letter to Musk asking him to use the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to protect DOGE staff and their work and directing him to refer "any questionable conduct or details that [Musk] find[s] or notice[s]" to your office.' In the letter, you assert that "actions in any way that impact [DOGE's] work may break numerous laws," and that you commit to the pursuit of "all legal action against anyone who impedes [Musk's) work or threatens [Musk's] people." You also state that you will "protect DOGE and other workers no matter what," citing past protests in Washington, D.C., which you refer to as riots. As you know, DOGE, or the United States DOGE Service as it is formally known, is a government entity established within the Executive Office of the President; by executive order, DOGE is supposed to access only "unclassified agency records." The day before your letter, WIRED reported about and named six young engineers working for DOGE — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. The experience and qualifications of public employees is of significant public interest. Following this news report, a user on X — the social media platform owned by Mr. Musk — made a post also naming th…

X has since suspended the account of the user who posted the names. As an experienced attorney holding such an important public position, you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment protects the right to publish newsworthy information that the publisher lawfully obtains, including names far more sensitive than those of government personnel.' Musk himself has publicly touted DOGE's engineers while citing "media reports" regarding them. Nor is it a crime to harshly criticize government employees and officials, even if transparency and criticism "impede" their work? Moreover, while certain true threats are unprotected and may be criminally punished, they are limited to serious expression[s]' conveying that a speaker means to 'commit an act of unlawful violence."$ Hyperbolic speech, even using threatening language, is entitled to full First Amendment protection.' You must also surely be aware that the First Amendment protects Americans' right to peaceably assemble, especially to protest government actions.' The First Amendment severely constrains the government's ability to limit protests in public forums, such as the public streets of Washington, D.C." The government also cannot ban or restrict future protests based on unlawful conduct alleged to have occurred at past protests. 2 Threatening to prosecute First Amendment speech and activity is not only at odds with the U.S. Constitution, it is also entirely inconsistent with Musk's own stated principles and the right of the American people to know what the government is up to. Musk describes himself as a free speech absolutist and has proposed a massive declassification of government records, opining that all government records should be public by default. '3 Just three months ago, Musk publicly posted…

government employees with whom he disagrees on X.' If it is Musk's intention for the U.S. Attorney's Office to censor the press and public from identifying and discussing those conducting DOGE's work on his behalf, that would be incredibly hypocritical. It is also vital that the U.S. Attorney's Office maintain the highest ethical standards and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Rule 3.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for the Washington, D.C. Bar, of which you are a member, states: "A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous."Is Under Rule 3.8, prosecutors are additionally prohibited from filing in court or maintaining a charge "that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause."l6 The same rule provides that "[i]n exercising discretion to investigate or to prosecute," prosecutors shall not "improperly favor or invidiously discriminate against any person."17 Threatening to file frivolous charges against Americans and vaguely insinuating that wide swaths of constitutionally-protected speech and activity could invite criminal investigations and prosecutions may already violate these and other rules of professional conduct. Actually doing so almost certainly would. Additionally, publicly offering the Office of the U.S. Attorney's services to Musk in the context of his asserting that protected expression is a criminal act is unbecoming of your public office and your duties as a public servant. Your oath is to the U.S. Constitution - including the First Amendment - not to President Donald Trump, Musk, or DOGE's desire to operate in secrecy and without criticism. We request that you immediately (a) identify the specific "targeting" of DOGE staff your letter to Musk was referring to and what specific laws you contend it violated, (b) publicly commit to not investigate or prosecute journalists or others for reporting on or publish…

Common Cause Courage Foundation Defending Rights & Dissent Demand Progress Education Fund Democracy Matters First Amendment Coalition First Amendment Foundation Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Freedom of the Press Foundation Government Information Watch GovTrack.us Greenpeace USA Muslims for Just Futures Partnership for Civil Justice Fund PEN America Project On Government Oversight Radio Television Digital News Association Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Revolving Door Project RootsAction.org Social Security Works Society of Environmental Journalists Society of Professional Journalists The Authors Guild The Freedom BLOC Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts Woodhull Freedom Foundation CC: All House, All Senate Senate Majority Leader John Thune Speaker of the House Mike Johnson House Majority Leader Steve Scalise Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin 4

“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

If you’ve been an involved participant whom they’ve found useful (which I don’t know if Coristine was) and then try to leave, groups like this will threaten to do things like firebomb your home, hire a person to rape a woman you love, or put a hit out on you.

These connections compromise Coristine.

krebsonsecurity.com Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' February 7, 2025 Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today's story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of 'The Com,' an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

cyberscoop.com CYBERSCOOP he child sextortion group 764 and " the global collective of loosely associated groups known as "The Com" are using tools and techniques normally used for financially motivated cybercrime tactics - such as SIM swapping, IP grabbing and social engineering — to commit violent crimes, according to exclusive law enforcement and intelligence reports reviewed by CyberScoop. The reports offer insight into the underbelly of the global network, showing how they are using traditional cybercriminal tools to identify, target, groom, extort, and cause physical and psychological harm to victims as young as 10. They were shared with police nationwide and in some cases, with foreign-allied governments.

🚨 Coristine was involved with “The Com” (likely where he came to law enforcement attention, as reported by Bloomberg upthread):
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

“The Com” is a CYBERCRIME network with connections to child sexual exploitation:
cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-...

h/t @dell.bsky.social

Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

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