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Media reports say President Trump today is to sign an executive order instructing Linda McMahon, his education secretary, to start dismantling the Department of Education.

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Life is short. Make sure to spend it arguing with strangers online

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MSNBC - Voice of America journalist speaks out as China and Russia celebrate Trump silencing news outlet. https://www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-reports/watch/voice-of-america-journalist-speaks-out-as-china-and-russia-celebrate-trump-silencing-news-outlet-234818117612

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"While I am destroying democracy, people are throwing Molotov cocktails at my car dealerships. It is all very surprising."

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CISA is absolutely vital, essential to the defense of American critical infrastructure, but even so I struggle to recommend anyone go back to this level of abuse and mismanagement…

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Remember the Navajo Code Talkers, too. Don’t let future generations forget, no matter how hard the government tries. They were heroes.

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Chinese state media are celebrating President Donald Trump’s move to gut Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded news outlets that push back against authoritarian regimes. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-state-media-cheer-trumps-decision-axe-voice-america-rcna196663

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A US judge on Monday ordered #Trump administration officials to explain whether the administration violated his order when they deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members over the weekend & potentially set up a constitutional clash between the president & the federal #judiciary […]

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“Dad, that horse has glasses!” #Toddlers #ToddlerLogic

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What's the craziest thing you've learned this week? Mine was learning that some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate by injecting a potent venom that paralyzes the female temporarily. Now I'm imagining what the human […]

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NY Times - VOA’s broadcasts — long viewed as an important part of U.S. efforts to promote democracy and transparency overseas — are flickering out. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/business/voa-trump-dismantle.html?smid=url-share

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The deletions began shortly after #Trump took office. #CDC web pages on #vaccines, #HIV prevention, & #ReproductiveHealth went missing. Findings on #BirdFlu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The #Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned w/o certain […]

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Elon Musk's DOGE marked this poor man, 82-year-old Ned Johnson, dead. They removed $5,000 from his bank savings account, and cancelled his Social Security and Medicare. In one digital move, Elon Musk obliterated this man's life...and there's no way for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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“We’ve tried nothing, and we’re out of ideas!” Democratic favorability has plunged to 29%, the lowest since 1992 Only 63% of Democrats view their own party favorably, down from 72% in 2021 Among independents, just 19% see Democrats favorably, barely above […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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The main problem with the world today is that too many men of a certain age never realized that Starship Troopers is satire, not a Star Trek-like ideal.

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RFA - China appears to be conducting amphibious landing exercises with specially built vessels at a beach on the South China Sea, the sort of practice it would conduct if it was considering an island invasion as tensions over self-ruled Taiwan grow […]

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@archive.org is a vital resource. Use it!

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I do exactly this. Also, if you buy your audio books from libro.fm they download DRM free, and easy to push into audiobookshelf. Plus, they revenue share with local book stores. From: @arstechnica https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114162311416083667

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Called it. Wrote this back in Sept. 2024, about a clever Windows Powershell phishing scam that was targeting developers at the time. It uses a fake CAPTCHA that asks visitors to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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🤨“ #USPS reached an agreement with #Musk ’s team allowing it to help in “identifying and achieving further efficiencies,” Republican megadonor/Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in a letter to lawmakers on Thursday.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/postal-service-musk-doge.html

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Reuters reporting that the White House is advising federal orgs cutting IT staff to stop cutting cybersecurity positions, due to national security concerns. This doesn’t appear to apply to central cyber functions still (eg CISA), who are still having their budgets cut […]

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Found on Reddit on 3.14:

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@juddlegum.bsky.social's MuskWatch rolls out the DOGE tracker, showing that $96B of DOGE's claimed savings are bullshit. doge.muskwatch.com

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Neurotypicals get so weirded out when you explain that you have to invent the right persona to portray in a particular situation.

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#shitposting

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Controversial political opinion, I know, but the ISACs provided a vital and vendor agnostic information sharing resource for numerous American industries and critical infrastructure realms, that reduced red tape and bad blood between competing organizations […]

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Say it with me... Revenues we forgo or fail to realize are no different than spending. Entitlements aren't merely the costs of social programs; they're also the costs of untaxed/shielded wealth. We treat the concentration of wealth as something natural and absence of wealth as personal […]

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CISA’s Red Team has been cut by DOGE. Somebody go hire them, they’re really good.

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Looking at the cryptocurrency scamming going on at all levels of government, I keep thinking, so this is what living through the South Sea Bubble was like.

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The MAGA regime is taking away our freedom to raise our voices for what we believe and make a better life for our families. We are joining together to #FreeMahmoudKhalil and #FreeAmerica from rule by the bullies, for the billionaires

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Podcast app Pocket Casts makes its web player free https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/podcast-app-pocket-casts-makes-its-web-player-free/

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BREAKING: French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine. Their stock has rocketed 390% in the last 3 days as #Tesla $Starlink #SpaceX and #X continue their freefall […]

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A Welsh woman speaks to @BBCNews about the “horrendous” conditions she is being kept in after “visa mix-up” at the U.S. border. “They keep saying in all their booklets that this is not a prison. It’s hard to distinguish from my conception of a prison,” Becky Burke says. https://flip.it/DTwvgA […]

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation posts a reminder that "Yes, You Have the Right to Film ICE" -- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-film-ice At this point, we arguably have a duty to film ICE.

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Just a person, fighting every day to not call out some absolutely shitty and exploitative universities offering degrees in cybersecurity that don't teach the right stuff - especially to veterans.

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I just updated DefSec episode 299 with a different audio file that fixes some issues that @T2R pointed out (thank you, Riverside) and also added a link to the YouTube video version, which I just finished editing and uploading after finally winning my battle with Premier Pro […]

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So-called "private equity" and "hedge funds" -- they are nothing but economic looters -- should be burned to the ground. Here's the latest example of why: rank abuse of government programs intended to help regular folks. https://www.levernews.com/the-looting-of-americas-affordable-housing-fund/

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