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Some Senior VP at Target: Sir we thought The Blacks (TM) would let this go and come back but they haven't come back. They haven't come back sir! CFO: The line must go up, but it keeps going down! CEO, wearily removing glasses: It's time SVP: Sir, you don't mean-- CEO: Get me Al Sharpton

submitted 3 hours ago • 165 comments

Trump wants to implement yet another of his pro-inflation policies, lowering interest rates too soon and too fast. He REALLY wants stagflation.

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A Russian operation is one of the most successful so far in getting lies repeated by popular AI chatbots. Gift link to my story today. wapo.st/44vhnR3

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As DOJ argues that federal courts have no authority to order "any particular acts of diplomacy," I want to remind everyone that SCOTUS let Matthew Kacsmaryk seize control of Biden's border policy for 10 months and micromanage diplomatic negotiations with Mexican officials. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 3 hours ago • 27 comments

Literally “if you ask us to prove he’s a terrorist, then maybe YOU are a terrorist!”

submitted 14 hours ago • 155 comments

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it: www.404media.co/this-college...

submitted 3 hours ago • 24 comments

The Secretary of State holding a public conversation with Mike Benz — legitimizing a former white power YouTuber as an expert in our government — is Loomer-level insanity. Reality is dead and there is no floor. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 23 hours ago • 37 comments

Here's my blogpost in support of Krebs. It's different enough from those by @stamos.org or @k8em0.bsky.social that it's worth writing, though the conclusion is much the same. cybersect.substack.com/p/i-am-speak...

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Must be all that alien tech.

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Have any of the White House reporters even attempted to ask the Trump administration why it keeps saying that Abrego Garcia is in the domestic custody of a foreign sovereign when all evidence suggests that El Salvador is holding him on behalf of the United States pursuant to a contract?

submitted 22 hours ago • 98 comments

Don't use Fortinet SSL VPN. I used to use it internally only (for access to management network from WiFi), but got rid of it completely in 2021, using Wireguard instead. Have used Wireguard for remote access since 2019, which replaced prior use of OpenVPN; 2FA was tricky but found a way.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Oracle is an untrustworthy company.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

what kind of idiot would make this decision?

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He found this so embarrassing he deleted it. Imagine walking into this business environment and your brand is "I don't understand supply chains". Trump's brand is going down with the economy, but people are underestimating what else will be dragged with it

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Trump admin actions are indistinguishable from what they would be if he were an agent of a foreign power out to destroy the US.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

submitted 22 hours ago • 331 comments

No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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NEW: In our Signalgate lawsuit, the CIA has confirmed that crucial messages on Director John Ratcliffe's device were deleted by someone with access to the discussion — exposing what appears to be an illegal destruction of federal records. americanoversight.org/american-ove...

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New from 404 Media: ICE just paid Palantir tens of millions for "complete target analysis of known populations." Shows Palantir is actively working on, and updating, the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Just asking questions, Stephen!!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

submitted 2 days ago • 576 comments

After being told by the Supreme Court to bring Abrego Garcia home, and that it was illegal to send him and others to a foreign gulag without due process, the Trump administration this weekend sent 10 more people to the Salvadoran gulag without process.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Randy Barnett has gone fully authoritarian

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Not on this list: Michael Crow of Arizona State University.

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Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

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Because they really don't want us to see what's going on? More great reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social

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Someone with a Russian IP address used a DOGE account to attempt to login to the NLRB computer system.

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

The White House cites an NPR feature that states "banana slugs are hermaphrodites" as a reason to cease public funding of the network. But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...

submitted 2 days ago • 258 comments

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you aren’t outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Either the U.S. government is able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

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BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The sheer absurdity of claiming the US can't get something from El Salvador as the Salvadoran president visits a White House that claims it can and will get things from more powerful countries is spitting in everyone's faces. Anyone who repeats that BS as if it has any validity is helping that spit.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

MITRE supports a ton of federal cybersecurity work, with the CVE program probably being the most famous example. It's a globally used repository for vital information about vulnerabilities. cve.mitre.org I've asked DHS what's going on with the MITRE contract.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

seems bad

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There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

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GOOD

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You guys will never guess what happens to internationally-focused companies when you raise their input costs, anger their customers, & inject chaos into their lives. Ok, fine, you'll guess. www.wsj.com/opinion/trad...

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