Just another girl with a PhD. I follow academics in solidarity. https://xitter.cf/t.co/bwc5MAXMGq
Seattle, WA
Joined February 2009
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My dad was a World War II hero, and my mom played a crucial role in designing the Tomahawk missile. She called her team the "Tomma Group."
I didn't know what they did as a child, since neither of them felt war was for children... but now I feel like I have high standards to live up to.
They both believed in "just wars," and only Hitler and Putin have taught me what that really means.
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Elon’s bullshit posts now appear to be running as political ads on his own platform. Apparently, owning X still doesn’t give the manchild enough reach.
These ads are being served to users in the EU, which appears to violate X’s own political advertising policy.
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Sounds like the start of a movie villain's big reveal. 🥴 Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney's MUSK "plays like equal parts dystopian sci-fi and outright horror flick" (Rolling Stone) and is now playing in theaters. Get your tickets now before it's gone!
bit.ly/4ArO3ZA
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After Musk sold out Ukraine to help his Russian master, British parliament says Musk must not be allowed to roam free in Europe.
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SpaceX Investor @GerberKawasaki tells me he’s not only “disgusted…from a humanity perspective” by restrictions on Starlink in Ukraine, but also: “…they've given everybody a reason not to use Starlink, that Starlink isn't reliable for national security for anybody but Trump.”
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Kyiv. More than 3 million people. russia is hitting the capital with an Iskander missile armed with a cluster warhead.
A city full of civilians. Deliberate terror.
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
Could someone please turn Starshield back on? Suddenly, no one seems to know what it is. @SecRubio
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More Russian humanitarian missiles hitting a European capital.
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Trump’s censorship czar chimes in to warn the media about the consequences of the dissemination of data disfavored by the state.
During this election season, there has been a significant surge in entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls designed to do nothing more than interfere with the regular functioning of the electoral process and alter the normal patterns of voter turnout and enthusiasm.
Many journalists and broadcasters have been amplifying or airing these Polls without regard to basic journalistic ethics and without informing the public that those Polls lack a scientific, accurate, or even real basis.
The FCC takes these issues seriously. Broadcasters are prohibited by the terms of their federal licenses from engaging in News Distortion or promoting Broadcast Hoaxes. It is important that broadcasters comply with their public interest obligations. After all, the country benefits greatly when Americans can trust and rely on the media to report the news fairly and accurately.
Broadcasters are advised to avoid engaging in News Distortions or running Broadcast Hoaxes by airing Polls that would violate their regulatory obligations. If broadcasters believe they should provide their viewers with additional context and information about Polls they have covered, they can now take those actions consistent with FCC regulations.
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Democrats have filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the Justice Department, alleging that the Trump administration is unlawfully interfering with the midterms by pressuring states to remove voters from their rolls. wapo.st/4hZiC1x
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As just announced in the @UN First Committee, Russia’s COSMOS 2612 military satellite has been exhibiting threatening behavior by intentionally maneuvering dangerously close to a commercial satellite, behaviors consistent with on-orbit weapons operations. This violates long-established safety thresholds in low Earth orbit. The United States will continue to secure and defend American vital national security interests in, from, and to space.
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This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
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Woah! Go New Mexico. This is a really important message to Silicon Valley tech companies: you are not above the law
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new…
Woohoo!
BREAKING: A judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading consumers about their data privacy. cbsn.ws/4z27Nlh
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Putin personally ordered a new wave of attacks on @NATO countries in Europe. The Leipzig airport plot was one of the opening shots.
Putin was driven by frustration with the stalled negotiations and Ukraine’s deep strikes.
My report via @WSJ
wsj.com/world/europe/airfiel…
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Around 420,000 leaked AfD emails reportedly reveal Nazi praise, antisemitism, racism, targeting of political opponents and advice on hiding donations.
Do Germans really want this kind of party running their country?
Elon Musk threatens to kill donors to the Democratic Party. Is this considered free speech, @FBIDirectorKash?
