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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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Important to remember that audit logs are official records. Destroying them (or preventing them from being logged) is itself a federal crime. DOGE is by definition performing criminal activity simply by disabling logging. Period.

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Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt). Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders / envelopes.

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By the end of Greene's Tuesday town hall in Acworth, Ga., three people were arrested and two were hit with stun guns. Greene is one of many lawmakers confronted by angry constituents in recent weeks.

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“Sickening and heartbreaking” Someone who was at the Marge Greene town hall where folks who dissented were arrested/targeted/tased by police — who has voted for both parties — writes about what she saw 👇🏽

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Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the quiet part out loud: “We are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious about using my voice because retaliation is real.”

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well i am sure this administration will take strong action to make sure food safety is a top priority going forwa… hold on i am getting an update

submitted 3 days ago • 211 comments

The State Department is changing its mind about human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

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Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane Discussion

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I looked this guy up on linkedin and he's been at the SSA for 26 years. worked his way up from IT grunt to associate commissioner

submitted 8 days ago • 48 comments

RFK Jr's always going on about "healthy" and what he means is a mixture of nihilism and eugenics, that public health and medicine are pointless because "unhealthy" people are going to (and deserve to) die anyway. Never mind the kid's death was easily preventable. Call them "unhealthy" and move on.

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

Holy shit “Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”

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UnitedHealth is demanding that doctors pay back the loans they took last year to deal with its ransomware attack Some doctors were asked to return hundreds of thousands of dollars in a matter of days. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/u...

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One of the doctors RFK claimed was doing “heroic” work “curing” kids of measles . . . a) is treating kids with a steroid, which is making them sicker b) said the idea came from god in a dream c) boasted about treating kids while he himself had the measles www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

It's not echo of 1940. It's literal return to 1930s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and...

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

This has not got the traction it needs. It’s one thing to pin a US flag on your lapel. This tho is clearly another matter. It’s not insignificant & you should care. A lot. It’s the worst omen of what’s to come. Pshaw this at your own risk. cc @brainnotonyet.bsky.social @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Translation: "We hoped you wouldn't notice us doing the bad thing that's not complicated at all."

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Very informative chart from Washington Post

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report A new document shows that vested interests were behind a “mud slinging” PR campaign to discredit the 2019 EAT-Lancet study. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

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CDC has fired the people the cruise industry pays to track whether cruise ships are vectors (again) for global epidemics. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

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NOAA fires hundreds of climate workers after court clears way for dismissals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Meta whistleblower told US Senators on Wed. that Facebook undermined Nat. security to build a $18B business in China. Former global director at Facebook watched as execs provided the China Comm. Party‬ with access to the data of Meta users, including that of Americans. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

So LAPD shot the wife of Weezer’s bassist because she pulled a gun after a suspect the cops were chasing showed up on her yard and now they’re trying to charge her? What on earth

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 11 days ago • 871 comments

The United Kingdom has identified another case of a contagious new strain of mpox, making it the latest European country to report an infection.

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Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians Discussion

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In case anyone’s wondering… www.forbes.com/sites/quora/...

submitted 14 days ago • 136 comments

I'm boosting this woman's case for awareness. Cruel and evil. She DOES not belong in the men's jail over going to the women's bathroom. No trans woman does. Let's fight for Marcy Rheintgen.

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126 domestic cats in the U.S. have been infected with bird flu since 2022, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Around half of those cases were recorded this year, and many were exposed through food or milk.

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This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

submitted 26 days ago • 333 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 26 days ago • 1067 comments

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

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Oracle customers confirm the authenticity of data samples shared by a threat actor who allegedly breached Oracle Cloud servers, after Oracle denied the breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 27 days ago • 422 comments

Here are screenshots of Haley's post. Donation links: www.paypal.com/donate/?host... and donorbox.org/friends-of-b... Venmo: friendsofbear

submitted 28 days ago • 124 comments

(🧵) THREAD from a Trump and Musk biographer. More than any men in America, Trump and Musk target for retribution anyone who crosses them. And more than anyone, these two complain about media using anonymous sources to report on them. It’s worth taking a moment and sit with those two statements.

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website

submitted 29 days ago • 286 comments

Holy fuck www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-to-...

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[Content warning: violence] Led by Mayor Eric Adams' longtime allies, this secretive NYPD unit is ridden with abuses. One man died after officers in the unit swerved their unmarked police car into his motorcycle. 📽️: @carissaqmb.bsky.social

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EDUCATION: PROJECT 2025 COMES TRUE @joycewhitevance.bsky.social “Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal U.S. Department of Education should be eliminated.” THOSE ARE THE OPENING WORDS IN THE EDUCATION CHAPTER OF PROJECT 2025. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

Who Is Free Software For? Discussion

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My grandfather was a green card holder from when he arrived in the US in his 20s until he died in his 90s. Having a green card makes you a LEGAL resident of the US. The fact that he has disappeared should terrify you. And the fact that Columbia was complacent in his disappearance is grotesque

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We now have generative AI to hallucinate a past that never was, while simultaneously purging the digital archives of traces of a history that doesn't fit the white supremacist ideology of our new techno-fascist overlords. It‘s getting darker every day

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