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1. OMG. The main concern is not the ability to hack Signal; it’s that if a foreign government has penetrated the phone of a person who is using Signal, they can read all of the communications on that phone in real time.

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Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1219 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

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I feel like a broken record with this reporting, but here is another way science is being fucked over: The DOE is "significantly" reducing those on staff at national labs who can make purchases, which slows down work and makes it harder to access the money they have already been allocated!

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Unlike Aspen Institute-affiliated “Service” advocacy, this group recognizes it’s not just military who serve, it’s teachers, librarians, nurses, and other public sector workers too. There’s plenty of talent out there.

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"That’s why the CIA guards don’t allow cell phones, or even Fitbits, into their buildings. Which brings us back to Bill Murray’s question: Why was the director of the CIA using a cell phone at CIA headquarters?" www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...

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We are in the midst of what many consider the most promising pancreatic cancer cure research in decades. This is literally joining the War on Cancer on the side of cancer. It's happening in multiple departments. They're also attacking mRNA fax science which is the heart of the possible breakthrough.

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Just imagine the intel breaches happening right now by state actors and malevolent orgs that we are not seeing because a these mediocre clowns didn't always cc a fucking reporter

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NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

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Politico: “Objective reality is polling well, so it’s not a hoax. If those numbers slip, though, hoooo boy it’s fake news again.”

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achtung, baby www.spiegel.de/internationa...

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Members of the Yemen Signal chat—including NatSec Advisor Michael Waltz and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles—left their Venmo accounts exposed, linking them to politicians, doctors, tailors, lobbyists, and each other. Experts say it a digital op-sec disaster. w/ @timmarchman.bsky.social

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This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

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From Fox’s Chief National Security reporter. Who can’t seem to get any airtime lately. For some reason.

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Everything’s fine. ““By mid-April we expect disruption to virtually all North American vehicle production,” Mr. Smoke said Wednesday on a conference call with clients and reporters. “Bottom line: lower production, tighter supply and higher prices are around the corner.”

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Interesting 🧵

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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 1 day ago • 1691 comments

Getting to the point that I'm contacting elected officials with multiple issues to talk about because every day yields multiple 5-alarm fires. Absolutely fuck all of this.

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NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

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Yesterday, Michael Waltz claimed that he’s “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” Jeffrey Goldberg. Here’s a photo of Waltz standing next to Goldberg during a 2021 event at the French Embassy. The event Waltz attended—a Q&A with a French filmmaker—was moderated by Goldberg.

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The way NBC has framed this doesn’t quite convey what Johnson is threatening. The idea is not nuking the federal judicial branch en masse, but rather having Congress use its laser eyes to selectively destroy a district court or two for making a ruling the GOP doesn’t like so as to overawe the rest.

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After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

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Why do news organizations keep misstating the effect of this executive order? The president does not regulate elections in this country.

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I did a deep dive into the criminal laws and past criminal cases that are most relevant to "Signal Gate." Focus your mind on this: Special prosecutor criminal case against former head of CIA John Deutch for "gross negligence" in use of his personal home computer for national defense information.

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Tout this widely. The biggest danger right now is, as @dandrezner.bsky.social said yesterday, pluralistic ignorance, when “people who hold a majority opinion are unaware that it is a majority opinion”. We need to broadcast all the signs that the town halls etc are not a fluke.

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The DC Department of Health says that someone with measles visited several places in DC, including Amtrak trains, six days ago while contagious. Press release: dchealth.dc.gov/release/heal...

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😕

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noting again that there's no plan here, there's no coordination, the president isn't actually aware of anything, everyone's just doing whatever they think will get them favorably noticed during the 2 hours per days he's not cheating at golf or screaming at the television

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Oh?

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Not the main thing here, but EVERY TIME one of these white shoe lawyers comes in for criticism for representing evil or rapacious clients, they fall back on the cliche that everyone is entitled to vigorous representation, and the entire profession races to their defense. Now look:

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Not just trying to remove judges, their next great idea is eliminating federal courts Reporting by @nbcnews.com

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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 2 days ago • 1047 comments

“Moments ago, Donald Trump signed a massive voter suppression executive order,” Elias wrote on Bluesky, “This will not stand. We will sue.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 2 days ago • 227 comments

I had legit completely forgotten this.

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BENNET: Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were as director of the CIA participating in this thread? Were you aware of that?! RATCLIFFE: I'm not aware of that BENNET: It's am embarrassment

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My students are reading this today (from 2017)--it's still a good read: tobiasrose.medium.com/the-enemy-in...

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This vote to confirm Trump's Deputy Secretary of State was yesterday after it was shown Trump's national security leadership is incompetent and sharing military secrets outside normal channels. Inexplicably bad policy and political strategy. Zero upside, just attaching their names to a liability.

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

And per my other conversation, I’m not advocating crypto, I understand the sentiment behind it as an alternative to some banks because of all the fees. I don’t recommend crypto. Tho, maybe better joining a credit union instead of a bank for less fees & better rates.

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The Trump admin's response to their very dumb, damaging Signal leak is basically their response to everything: Lie incessantly, invert reality, say it didn't happen while also blaming others for it happening—yes, at the same time—and keep doing so until something else breaks and public focus shifts.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

One thing that can get lost in all this is that Jeff Goldberg knows much, much more about national security than the principals who were on that text chain.

submitted 2 days ago • 444 comments

In any other administration of the past 80 years, the defense secretary and the national security advisor would, following an equivalent scandal, now resign.

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The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Not enough coffee this morning

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