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The question is how do we self empower people to enact their own security over repositories because if we cannot trust the defaults, we must empower people.

I understand the assignment.

GET LOUD AND PISSED.

When I'm feeling optimistic, I remember that the number one defining characteristic of Americans is that we hate being told to shut up and react poorly to it.

If you are an agency employee asked to take a polygraph contact a lawyer *immediately*. I am more than willing to immediately respond to anyone being pushed into this. My email is in my bio and my signal is NationalSecurityCounselors.16

@democrats.org should maybe be listening to constituents like this instead of failed political consultants who haven't talked to an average democrat in 2 decades.

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One thing you will realize about me: when it comes to ethics, I am like steel. I will break before I bend. For good or ill. (Yes, it makes my job harder.)

Today, I did some volunteer work to advance privacy at the state level here in MN. It ain't solving the problem we have with the federal government, but one small step forward here in my corner for the millions that call MN home.

If Trump can defund USAID, he can defund Congress and the Courts. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @ilhanmn.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov

This is correct. Patel in the FBI escalates the crackdown on resistance. Nonprofits need to start cleaning up their donor lists before they get targeted.

One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.

How many lawyers have tasked their junior staff to just monitor social media for news releases like this to help build evidence for their cases?

Lololol. Get fucked, Twitter lawyers. #EthicsMatter

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Holy shit. FIRE THIS BITCH INTO THE SUN.

If lawyers are doing this, it's wildly unethical. We have a full blown crisis of legal ethics on our hands that is infinitely intertwined with the coup on our government.

Is anyone a lawyer who can provide expertise about NIH funding freeze attempts, or can you recommend one? This is for a story I'm writing for The Guardian. 🧪

Kash Patel is going to weaponize federal surveillance against Americans. All the tools of the War on Terror being weaponized against us by a government led by people who hate America and Americans.