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Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

As I wrote, Musk has already delivered a big win for despots by defunding the National Endowment for Democracy: wapo.st/40XP5LO Now he has Radio Liberty in his sights too. Putin will be delighted.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Here’s how many billions Elon Musk’s companies are making from U.S. taxpayers

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Intelligence from the United States and close allies shows that Russian President Putin still wants to control all of Ukraine and is not interested in a "real peace deal" at this point, according to Western officials. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

NBC News Exclusive: The Trump admin is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees this week as part of a move to rid the agency of people deemed to be misaligned with the admin's goals. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 4 days ago • 145 comments

I don't know if I'll ever get over the fact that the US threw away 8 decades of postwar prosperity for literally nothing at all, just the whims of a madman, with no benefit to the country in any way whatsoever. Destroying our relationships with all of our allies to absolutely no purpose.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

this will end up leading to disaster and it will cost significantly more in taxpayer dollars for the trouble, and republican members of congress should be asked about it every single day, particularly if they serve on related committees

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

submitted 6 days ago • 987 comments

Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration…. Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons. www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Good article actually about the people getting fired. (Gift link) www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

These cuts are bad, but it's important to know that there are 60,000 more people at the national labs who carry out these responsibilities.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Eventually the Adams case will trickle down to someone who will just follow orders and dismiss it. Make that person historically infamous. (Recall it was Robert Bork who eventually followed Nixon’s order to fire Archibald Cox)

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

MAKE SMALLPOX VIRULENT AGAIN! “President Trump’s order that the United States exit the World Health Organization could undo programs meant to ensure the safety, security and study of a deadly virus that once took half a billion lives, experts warn.”

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.

submitted 13 days ago • 157 comments

Musk has some super shady little friends. Plus some super shady big friends.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

submitted 11 days ago • 165 comments

What would transparency in US look like if NARA gets gutted at similar rates to USAID? It would have no capacity to investigate unauthorized destruction of records, the National Declassification Center will sputter, the office responsible for overseeing government classification rules would dry up.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Musk may have multiple reasons for viciously targeting USAID. But his publicly expressed antipathy toward the agency only emerged on December 10, after he began sharing on X the baseless lies White nationalist and conspiracist Mike Benz promoted on the Joe Rogan Experience on December 3 (gift link).

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by explicit contrast with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.

submitted 16 days ago • 215 comments

NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He does not, our sources say, have "read only" access, but high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code.

submitted 19 days ago • 518 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 18 days ago • 2271 comments

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

submitted 19 days ago • 310 comments

Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.

submitted 20 days ago • 187 comments

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 20 days ago • 821 comments

The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"There were no calamitous new developments last year with respect to nuclear weapons—but this is hardly good news." Longstanding concerns continued or were amplified in 2024. The Science and Security Board in their #DoomsdayClock sidebar on nuclear risk: bit.ly/40yV09Y

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Trump’s pardon of the J6 insurrectionists has empowered extremist communities, people who are also excited over Musk’s Nazi salutes. As this year continues to unroll tragic incidents, don’t forget who emboldened the perpetrators to commit violence. open.substack.com/pub/k12ssdb/...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 31 days ago • 835 comments

Raskin: The chairman began by saying the point here is to restore the rule of law. Can you even pretend to do that if you support Trump who on day one pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists including hundreds of people who violently assaulted police officers…

submitted 31 days ago • 173 comments

All these women who turned in January 6 terrorists are in danger tonight

submitted 33 days ago • 399 comments

President Trump announced today that he would seek to remove the US from the #ParisAgreement. “Such a move is in clear defiance of scientific realities and shows an administration cruelly indifferent to the harsh climate change impacts that people in the US and around the world are experiencing.”

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

The cruelty is the point.

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Governor Newsom’s office fact-checks Trump’s lies:

submitted 45 days ago • 263 comments

Commentators keep treating DOGE as Al Gore’s Clinton-era ‘Reinventing Government’ redux, when a better frame is probably oligarchs under Yeltsin’s ‘shock therapy’ cleaving parts of the Russian state off as private fiefs.

submitted 49 days ago • 14 comments

I am honored to share that I've been invited to be one of the speakers at the Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals this April. Now I’m looking forward to spending a bit of time in Lugano, Switzerland this spring. www.aetap.eu/next-confere...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people. It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/

submitted 52 days ago • 72 comments

Remember the weird little football player whatshisname who said women belong in the kitchen at a literal graduation speech but it turned out his mother is an astrophysicist?

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile in Russia: after hanging out at the Kremlin, Karen Shakhnazarov reports that Putin constantly watches Vladimir Solovyov's program. This reconfirms he is fully on board with Solovyov's nuclear threats, genocidal comments, mockery of Trump, etc. youtu.be/e-or35GvW2Q

submitted 97 days ago • 16 comments

Good on Drummond. As soon as I saw this, I knew Drummond was not going to be happy. He’s a conservative Republican, but also seems to have a better understanding of true religious liberty than these guys like Walters. apnews.com/article/reli...

submitted 99 days ago • 36 comments

when did bomb threats become the standard republican response to everything they mildly dislike

submitted 146 days ago • 47 comments

One thing that needs to be said is that the Biden regime is probably facing the most defiant Israeli government ever. The governments of Begin, Shamir, Sharon, Olmert, and even Netanyahu himself, in his earlier phases, would listen to a strong US message to stop the war. Not this time. 1/

submitted 203 days ago • 3 comments

Never underestimate the power of a handful of ideologically committed people, backed by shit tons of reactionary wealth, to change the world.

submitted 254 days ago • 7 comments

Mrs. Alito says she's "from Germany." She was born there while her dad was serving on an Air Force base. They moved back when she was a toddler. Her parents were from Oklahoma & Kentucky. So for her to say "I'm from Germany" suggests a real deep reason to identify with something about that country

submitted 257 days ago • 34 comments