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I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

submitted 90 days ago • 468 comments

Someone needs to explain to our Sec of Commerce how capitalism works. America has a GLOBAL TRADE SURPLUS on services. Services have the highest margins and profits of our exports. That is where capital and expertise focused. It is why we dominate in tech globally.

submitted 91 days ago • 1537 comments

Gee - I wonder who’s interested in buying those buildings for - I’m guessing - pennies on the dollar

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Didn’t have that on my 2025 bingo card…

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Especially if the point drop is directly related to that President’s actions…

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Buckle up and batten down

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Calling this a clown show is deeply disrespectful to clowns.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

submitted 100 days ago • 191 comments

Did my best to recap some of the actions by Trump 2.0 in its first month that touch on cybersecurity and consumer protection. This has been cathartic to put together. It's long, but I hope it's at least somewhat useful for some of you. Trump 2.0 Brings […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 102 days ago • 2584 comments

Trump administration firing hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeks

submitted 108 days ago • 23 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 108 days ago • 2355 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 110 days ago • 2908 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 110 days ago • 2852 comments

Not only were they placed on admin leave, but the email sent a little while ago retroactively let them know it's been effective since this past money. As I understand it, the judge's order holds that no one can be fired, but by putting everyone on leave, the agency is unable to perform its function.

submitted 111 days ago • 12 comments

BLOOMBERG: “(Trump’s) Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated…” Everything is fine! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 111 days ago • 86 comments

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

submitted 111 days ago • 402 comments

Well-oiled machine

submitted 111 days ago • 176 comments

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 111 days ago • 2702 comments

In case this won't be reported, Senate Dems are holding the floor for 30 hours to try to stall the RFK Vote! Here's the press release from Wyden's office.

submitted 113 days ago • 274 comments

Imagine being an infosec person in US govt trying to write communicate about today's patches from Microsoft. You wouldn't even be able to properly classify or describe the most serious 0day today --a privilege escalation vulnerability -- because banned "DEI" words.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

It was good and now it’s bad…

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking News: The Trump administration fired FEMA officials after Elon Musk misleadingly claimed the agency used disaster relief funds for migrant shelters.

submitted 114 days ago • 378 comments

Alex, I’ll take the dumbest fight imaginable for $200

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Using executive orders to circumvent Congress is unconstitutional, you say, Republicans?

submitted 114 days ago • 119 comments

Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA https://journa.host/@w7voa/113979636920031167

submitted 115 days ago • 30 comments

Do they teach Marbury v. Madison at Yale Law School?

submitted 116 days ago • 66 comments