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Derek Martin

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I'm Derek. I am a nerd. Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Core, Global Resiliency. Toots are my opinion and don't represent my company.

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@politico @congress-politico that's quite a change of tune from yesterday. someone must have reminded him how much federal aid his state gets from places like...california

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Jack Smith report into Trump and election subversion to be released after Judge Cannon's ruling
www.salon.com/2025/01/13/jack-

Posted into News & Politics @news-politics-Salon

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If the Supreme Court sides with Texas in this week’s case, it would open the door to a slew of state laws that frustrate internet users' First Amendment rights and make them less secure online. Here's what you need to know about the upcoming arguments. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/

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Back to long form hot takes. Let's see how this goes. www.derekmartin.org/a-comically-long-time-later/

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Even though Trump will walk free and take his oath of office on January 20, he still is and will always be a convicted felon.

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@SwiftOnSecurity @Flipboard Also, please check out verifiedjournalist.org/ where thousands of journalists are independently verified :)

@politico @politics-politico Dark Brandon - let's go!

@Salon @news-politics-Salon Fuck him. He's pissed because he's so small, petty, petulant, and pathetic compared to President Carter.

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@jerry Whatcha doin with all the ornaments? Or are you taking them down after a successful season?

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@w7voa PFT - they better be ready to cave on everything since it requires D support and after this week's shitshow, that ain't coming cheap.

@politico @politics-politico But really, I’m sure The Orange Cheeto has no idea what’s going on in his senile old age, so really it’s President Musk calling the shots.

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Via Sawyer Hackett:

Thanks to Elon and Donald , Republicans cut $190 million for pediatric cancer research from the funding bill.

Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.

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A nice presidential portrait.

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Flipboard’s Surf joins several existing apps designed to view Mastodon and other ActivityPub platforms, as well as BlueSky and ActivityPub.1 I love Flipboard CEO Mike MkCue’s vision of the “social web,” as described by David Pierce at The Verge with feeds superseding websites.

"“You won’t put in, like, theverge.com and go to the website for The Verge, but you can put in ‘the verge’ and go to the ActivityPub feed for The Verge.” Your ... mitchw.blog/2024/12/19/flipboa

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Trump was gliding into his inauguration. Now he’s facing a big mess.
www.politico.com/news/2024/12/

Posted into Politics @politics-politico

@newrepublic Ugh, if I have to give Trump credit for doing something good I'm gonna be ill.

@USAToday @top-stories-USAToday The title is a bit odd. Is he saying that MUSK should be JOHNSON's replacement? Technically possible, but way stupid.

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@newrepublic Elon will be there in about a year once Donald tires of him being referred to as "President Elon"

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So, @Flipboard did launch a tool to make discovery easier, eh? And it's a fediverse browser?

Exactly what @mike told me. Check out this article if you want to know more about the company's decentralized push: thelettertwo.com/2024/12/15/be