Elaine Atwell
i believe that i am the biggest bonnie raitt fan of my generation.
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- i’ve been working in security for years now (in fact i gave an assist to the blog cited here) and i don’t think people realize the degree to which any and every company letting agents run wild in their infrastructure is lighting every principle of security on fire. the fallout will be unimaginable.
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellThe Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellEven if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Elaine Atwellholy shit, you mean to tell me that people were committing crimes with the thing whose single use case is crime
- i pretty much take it for granted that high level officials and executives are exposing sensitive data to public AI tools 10,000 times a day. in the coming years, you are going to see so many variations of this story.
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- i have not jumped on the “any day now” bandwagon thus far, but he legitimately looks near death in this photo.
- even accounting for his spray tan and stage lights, his skin just ain’t right
- to the pantheon of Father Time and Mother Nature, i would like to propose we add Auntie Weather. Aunt Weather: -can be super chill and nice -prone to occasional outbursts that often coincide with holidays -less predictable as time goes on -shows up to fucking everything
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- Reposted by Elaine AtwellIt's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).
- like, who do you think inspired this post? was it peter thiel? stephen miller? bovino? homan? vought? trump himself? (it was peter thiel but the point is how incredibly deep the bench is on Team Ghoul!)
- remember when cheney was VP, and everyone was astonished that someone so transparently evil, who absolutely radiated malice and greed, could rise so high in public life? and now that describes, like, every fifth guy you see on the news.
- everything else aside, it’s such a humiliating indictment of our times that a serious european in a suit has to stand at a lectern and say the word “grok.” that accent was meant for better things.
- We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
- Reposted by Elaine Atwell(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
- Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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- Reposted by Elaine Atwell“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
- Jesus Christ this is so far outside the norm. “government inquiries” mean they will share user data even without a subpoena.
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- losing power in a snowstorm: magical, bathed in sacred quiet, communing with my ancestors losing power in an icestorm: miserable, attacked by ground and trees, communing with jack nicholson in the shining
- everything is too much right now and if north carolina gets a terrible ice storm instead of a magical snow storm, it may break the last, fragile cog that keeps my personal machinery running.
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellThere is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy
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- Reposted by Elaine AtwellThis is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
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- Reposted by Elaine Atwelli’m never gonna stop saying this
- Reposted by Elaine Atwelltrump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him
- someone ask him why he’s dressed like he’s heading to the tom of finland party just as soon as he’s finished auditioning for the role of rolfe.
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellThere are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.
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- seriously i have soooo much meaner shit to say to those punks than what they harassed parker off here for.
- parker molloy has been a brave, funny, honorable force for trans rights and good politics on the internet for AGES. she carried the torch when it was a guttering candle. she carried it in the rain. the brats who chased her off here are just dime a dozen clout chasers.
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- this exactly. the amount i pay to use kagi as my search engine is *dwarfed* by the time i save not scrolling through garbage results, and you can’t put a price on the joy i feel at not engaging with google.
- i’m seeing a lot of smart people explain why venezuelan oil is not worth the proverbial squeeze, but also seeing the trump admin clearly say that they’re giving the country as a present to our big beautiful oil companies, and what i haven’t seen is anyone who can square that circle.
- Reposted by Elaine Atwellamazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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- literally breathtaking—this smug, strident jingoism is straight out of the era of teddy roosevelt
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- Reposted by Elaine AtwellSo for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
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- Reposted by Elaine AtwellThe people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellWe can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellI've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
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- this legit looks like a still from a paw patrol movie
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellI don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
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- we, as a society, need to get on the same page about a basic norm. the last days before holiday vacation are for: 1. tying up loose ends 2. going to meetings in a festive sweater/hat 3. saying “let’s circle back in the new year” NOT sprinting toward self-imposed deadlines or launching new projects.
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- this isn’t *good* for johnson, but IMO the rumblings of his imminent demise are overblown. the first cracks might be showing in the GOP, but the dam is a long way from bursting, and until it does, johnson is actually very good at projecting calm and normalcy and playing dumb when needed.
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- sorry but “keeping a bottle of champagne in the back of your closet for when it happens” is incredibly bad form. true patriots keep it in the fridge.
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellA reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
- Reposted by Elaine AtwellThis. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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- what did you expect, it wasn’t called american cano
- putting on my hard hat, stubbing my cigarette out with toe of my boot, and heaving a deep sigh as i set the “days since i last cried at my desk” calendar back to zero.
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- anyone else crying a lot at christmas songs because the last time you heard them was a year ago before trump took office and hearing them again makes you aware the crushing weight of despair you’ve added a pound to every day since then, and which makes songs about hope and peace unbearably poignant?
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- 🎸🎶 her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world, you can see she’s a map of the world, a female map of the world. suddenly i see, her eyes are the philippines, suddenly i see, why the atlas is so hot to me 🎶
- i don’t know who has the power to make this happen, but on monday, someone needs to make jimmy fallon and isaac chotiner touch an enchanted gemstone at the exact same time.
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- obviously trump will hand a pardon to anyone who slips him five bucks under the table. but i think he also genuinely, sincerely objects to elite accountability as a concept, and that transcends party lines for him.
- foreground: executive function background: ADHD, sensing the meds beginning to wear off
- i simply could not have anticipated that “rage” and “dread” would be feelings i just walk around with all the time as a working adult living in the richest country in the world.
