Bard spotting on Bluesky 24 March 2025

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution specify

PERSONS

And

PEOPLE

Not

CITIZENS nor NON-CITIZENS

That PERSONS have already been deprived of their LIBERTY without DUE PROCESS by Trump's administration is ALREADY a violation of the CONSTITUTION

Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social):

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

@merriam-webster.com , prime candidate to illustrate the definition of "Ad Hominem"

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social):

Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journ*list?

Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journ*list who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes

❤️OccupyOneLove❤️ (@occupyonelove.bsky.social):

• a little desperate - non?

p o t z {er} - March = 🎂🎉🎁 (@potzer.xyz):

what does it say about a person when the people who seemingly care about them the most all live in their phone?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

You're back!!! 🥳

p o t z {er} - March = 🎂🎉🎁 (@potzer.xyz):

for now!

p o t z {er} - March = 🎂🎉🎁 (@potzer.xyz):

happy birthday to me

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Hebbo berfdeh tuh yuh

p o t z {er} - March = 🎂🎉🎁 (@potzer.xyz):

🫂❤️💋 thank you my love

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I'll give you three guesses why

Teddy Wilson (@reportbywilson.bsky.social):

Trump Administration Abandoning Efforts to Combat White Supremacist and Far-Right Terrorism and Violence

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I also 100% believe they're capable of this level of incompetence, because in 09/2018 the heads of /r/the_donald & a few other hate subreddits convened a private strategy chatsub & invited me b/c I had registered /r/AgainstGayMarriage; they wanted /r/aganistgaymarriage instead.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The incompetent goons running that neoNazi chat - where they conspired to criminally & tortiously harass all the non-racist moderators off Reddit - were marginally more competent than the Trump admin here; they did think to doublecheck their invites 12 hours after launch.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Which restaurant security cameras / RING indoor cameras were pointed at their device screens

Were they running some unvetted Android jailbreak

Did their kids shouldersurf their PINs

Are they sure everything on the screen wasn't being echoed to their AppleTV or the Bluetooth

Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social):

Worth noting that SIGNAL ITSELF is about as secure as it gets for a private messaging app, but there's a lot more to security than the app for users like this, who are 100% prime targets of the world's most sophisticated SIGINT. What devices was this done on? Where were they physically?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Like, I remember when someone with a Yagi-Uda and a set of rectifiers out of a 1950's B&W TV set could read a CRT at distance from the emissions of the electron gun, but these days maybe it's just a home internet router with compromised firmware

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Nazis got better treatment during WWII than the Trump administration treats asylum seekers

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social):

"Those folks did not have notice or an opportunity to challenge things at all," Millett says. "Nazis got better treatment" in removals under the AEA — with review boards — than Trump has laid out here.

Ensign argues that, because the five initial plaintiffs got their TRO, anyone could have done so.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I rewrote and rewrote and rewrote this 👆🏻 because it makes me incandescent with rage

Fox News talking heads are calling for the outright suspension of Habeas rights; the Trump administration is gearing up for the largest volume of human rights violations in the past 20 years

Hey, nobody made them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 (@legalminimum.bsky.social):

At least it wasn't email.

Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social):

Obviously CCing a journ*list on all this shows humiliating incompetence, but also… why the frick is this conversation happening on a third-party messaging app, even an encrypted one?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Emails with butter!

Chris A Field, Otherverse Games (@otherverseg.bsky.social):

Motherlover is clueless. He's got an entire administration of Incel Starscreams and they're all plotting behind his back. I think he might ofnfibally realized that.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com):

Trump on his cabinet members using Signal to text war plans to a reporter: "I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To be it's a magazine that's going out of business. But I know nothing about it. You're saying that they had what?"

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Just the look in hjs eyes in the thumbnail. That is the thousand yard stare of a man at the gates of Heck

Chris A Field, Otherverse Games (@otherverseg.bsky.social):

He's not suffering one tenth as much as he should be.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

HE IS FINDING OUT FROM THE NEWS

HE IS FINDING OUT FROM THE NEWS

LIKE CHILDREN, THEY HID IT FROM HIM

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com):

Trump on his cabinet members using Signal to text war plans to a reporter: "I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To be it's a magazine that's going out of business. But I know nothing about it. You're saying that they had what?"

Lady Madeleine Verde (@bustyboudica.bsky.social):

Tbf I wouldn't have told anyone either 😇

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

If I were POTUS & had first hand knowledge that members of my cabinet & their entourage had violated like a dozen federal laws & endangered the security of the nation by making OPSEC mistakes teenagers on Groomercord make, they would be in custody before I stepped in front of cameras, buthatsjustme

Clarkisha Kent (@clarkishakent.bsky.social):

Everybody who voted to confirm that lushed-out frat boy with shitty tattoos and way too much gel in his hair should be dragged into a town square with him and pelted with big, FAT, red paintballs.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I think you mean COLD red paintballs

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

University of Texas also trampled the first amendment by Complying In Advance with the EO by enacting a drag ban.

I have some opinions about that,

Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):

1. Huge! Texas A&M's drag ban is blocked. A&M argued that Trump's recent EO on trans people mandated a drag ban, and also argued that drag is obscene.

A Bush-appointed judge replied that Trump's EOs "cannot override the first amendment," and that drag is art.

Subscribe to support my journ*lism.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Quite possibly the sole reason that this reporter isn't inside a 50 gallon drum at this moment is the possibility that some of the chat which he didn't release contains something more damaging than "Trump Cabinet Burns Houthi Forces, Also Every Bridge With NATO, Also The Constitution"

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social):

The fact that a reporter was inadvertently given access to this in real time shows that Pete Hegseth & the rest of this crew are bumbling incompetents who are going to get a lot of intelligence officials and others killed at some point. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Trump will assert that it was all done on purpose, & that b/c they're his cabinet, everything they do is inside his presidential immunity umbrella, & therefore legal, while simultaneously claiming that the Atlantic journ*list & everyone he worked with must immediately be imprisoned for espionage

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The thing about planning your military operations at your work desk in the SCIF, like you are hired and paid to do and are expected by law to do, under penalty of treason

Is

You can't accidentally CC: the chat to a member of the press

Because it's a SCIF

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

if the law actually ever applied to these chucklefricks, they'd all be in front of judges right this frickin' second, and in a month they'd all be served cold creamofwheat breakfast by prison trustees

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

As you read this, be sure to count the number of violations of federal national security laws - including the Espionage Act, federal records laws, and etc - committed by all those involved

Shane Harris (@shaneharris.bsky.social):

In 25 years of covering national security, I've never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I see people reacting to this with "I can't believe this is real", but hey, yo, the Executive branch confirms that the incidents described — VP & Cabinet using Signal on presumably-unsecured cellphones to discuss and coordinate the operation of US Military on a global scale - really happened

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I can also 100% believe that this happened, and that it will likely happen again!

Because THESE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER BEEN HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR THE THINGS THEY HAVE DONE.

Lil Miss Sinister Fairy Godb-word of the Burrow Mump 🧚♂️😈🌾 (@fairygodmegan.bsky.social):

Okay, but why did we let Lady Gaga make up the term, "disco stick?"

Self-deprecating Ghost Bird (Lulu) 🏴☠️ (@soundwave187.bsky.social):

Because she's a powerful witch with strong dark majiks. Not magic. That shits for losers.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I am laughing too hard, thx

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

If you don't have a working AUP, then bad actors see your platform as theirs. They take over, like a mafia. They control who uses the site.

That happened to Reddit with KotakuInAction.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

One of the very excellent reasons for social media platforms to have - and enforce - Acceptable Use Policies that prohibit harassing others off the service — without those policies, political astroturf groups will swarm the site to launder their views as "normal"

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

One of the very excellent reasons for social media platforms to have - and enforce - Acceptable Use Policies that prohibit harassing others off the service — without those policies, political astroturf groups will swarm the site to launder their views as "normal"

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

There's no authentic, spontaneous speech when a group of violent bigots dogpile onto their targets with death threats and etc at every opportunity.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

So the Golden Rule of Social Media really is,

Do Not Seek To Participate Where You Know You Are Not Welcome

and the golden rule for moderators is,

Did This Jerk Violate A Boundary

/r/dallas is a discussion forum with 4 mods, down from 7 mods 5 years ago, and an unacceptable long running policy and practice that can be expressed as "Moderating here comes after job, commute, cooking, family, sleep, holidays, exercise, naps, and blowing our noses".