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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 15 completed
Guincho trails
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I was not expecting this many single tracks today. It was really nice.
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Photo: Keystone View Co. / U. of Indiana
Not sure of date, but a different library has another photo of Cork from the same publisher dated 1902
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Highway robbery as 'Historic Idaho sign goes missing days before donation to Museum of Idaho':
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Historic Idaho sign goes missing days before donation to Museum of Idaho - East Idaho News
Historic Stinker Station sign, which is currently missing. | Courtesy of Museum of Idaho. IDAHO FALLS — An iconic piece of Idaho history has gone missing, and the Museum of Idaho is desperate to find it.Kaitlyn Hart (EastIdahoNews.com)
Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a #recession
Texas senator’s comments another sign of #Republican unease over ‘reciprocal #tariffs’ and stock market plunge
But we will let the dear leader do what he wants… I don’t see a groundswell of republicans standing up to #trump and President #Musk and the heritage foundation in any meaningful way
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Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a recession
Texas senator’s comments another sign of Republican unease over ‘reciprocal tariffs’ and stock market plungeEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
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Anyone who didn't vote, voted for Jill Stein or voted for trump are complicit and need to be held accountable for their action. Period.
I've encouraged people to make a list so they dont' forget who in their circles or communities voted for trump or helped him get elected because they're going to start complaining and pretending they didn't and they need to outted
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I spent most of yesterday in the beautiful sunshine in Hyde Park. It looked very much like this with the World and his wife pouring in.
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Trains and busses were so full people were still arriving an hour into it. There were more people to the right and left of the picture and more in the back.
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Keep it going !!!!
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Je wordt overigens op je wenken bediend: volgens CNN demonstreerden er vandaag "millions of people".
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Dus net hoopte je op miljoenen, en nu het er miljoenen zijn vindt je dat ook maar weer niks.
Jo, dit soort cynisme, daar hebben we dus precies helemaal niks aan.
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 14/2025 completed
Sintra downtown and surroundings. That last climb…
#52weeks52halfmarathons #halfmarathon #running #sintra
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😢 Zelensky: 3-year-old Timofiy, unfortunately, died today in the hospital. 7-year-old Radyslav. Arina, who will also be 7 forever. 9-year-old German. 15-year-old Danylo. 15-year-old Nikita. 15-year-old Alina. Konstantin, who will be 16 forever. Nikita is 17 years old. These are the children who were killed by a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.
Unfortunately, 9 adults also died. Another 62 people were injured in the strike, including 12 children.
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How important should being open source be to me? Or, more precisely, should the obnoxiousness of #mozilla management outweigh the closed source nature of vivaldi.
I've been trying #vivaldi as a replacement for #firefox, my default browser. I could easily switch to vivaldi.
BUT vivaldi is not open source.
I've read the explanation for why parts of vivaldi are not open source was not convinced.
Hard to "weigh" incommensurable concerns.
Any alternative should grow from firefox code and gain mass when firefox itself goes irremediably wrong in their decisions.
Until then, I'll use firefox and dream about a really free (like in freedom) alternative
"On the supply side of the rental market, our national vacancy index now sits at 6.9 percent, the highest reading in the history of that monthly data series, which goes back to the start of 2017. . . . multifamily occupancy has been slowly but consistently easing for over three years amid an influx of new inventory. 2024 saw the most new apartment completions since the mid-1980s, and with 750 thousand units still in the construction pipeline . . ."
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Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year
Another monthly update on rents.CalculatedRisk by Bill McBride (CalculatedRisk Newsletter)
Hey lookit - another one of them “administrative mistakes”!
Forty-five years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the United States for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.
While on his way to work on Monday, the 73-year-old grandfather was picked up by immigration enforcement agents near his Lafayette home. He sits today in an ICE processing center in Pine Prairie, a village in rural Evangeline Parish. - Claire Taylor
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ICE agents arrest 73-year-old grandfather in Louisiana who has lived in US for 45 years
The Lafayette man was detained outside of a gas station on his way to work, and his family posted a video begging for prayers and help to bring him home.The Advocate
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Not being careful is their preferred method. The family separation fiasco was worse because they didn’t bother to keep track of who belonged with whom.
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"I said 'No, Papa. They're not coming for you,'" she recalled. "'They want bad guys and you're not a bad guy.'"
Why do I get the feeling from the article that she used to be in favor of ICE removing the ‘bad people?’
"Suppose your doctor suddenly insisted that you needed to follow a strict diet and exercise regimen. He said he realized you had a serious problem when he divided your height by your birthday, and it came out way too high. You would probably decide that you need a new doctor.
This is basically the story of Donald Trump’s new round of import taxes (tariffs) on our trading partners. Trump somehow decided that trade was bankrupting the country, even though we were creating jobs rapidly, the economy was growing at a strong pace, and inflation was slowing to normal rates when he took office."
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That's brilliant.
For some reason it made me think of this:
[Content Warning: Do not click this link unless you want to see what looks like a possessed baby image arising from the fading of a perfectly innocent sign]
18k on an empty stomache, stupid or smart?
Well it was pretty hard. At least the sunset was pretty.
I don't think the sign is going to keep the invaders out, do you?!
#BreakingImpossible #OptOutside #travelphotography #PhotoSafari #running #hiking #Estonia
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Absolutely glorious and thrilling to see the solar eclipse today in London ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆
Made a solar projector using a colander! And also watching the Greenwich live stream: rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/sola…
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Watch the Moon hide a portion of the Sun live online with Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomerswww.rmg.co.uk
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Reported yesterday that a lobbyist and government contractor bought JD Vance’s home for $170,000 over asking price
Here's how we were able to determine who bought Vance's home--
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Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price
The buyer, a Trump appointee during his first term, denies any political motive—calling the $1.9 million deal purely market-driven.Zach Everson (Forbes)
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Started last year when my @Forbes colleague Kyle Khan-Mullins was reporting our piece on JD Vance's valuation.
There were news reports that Vance bought a home in the liberal enclave of Del Ray in Alexandria, Va. But we needed documentation.
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Donald Trump’s Vice President Pick JD Vance’s Net Worth in 2024
JD Vance's net worth was boosted by his book "Hillbilly Elegy" and his work in the military and venture capital.Forbes
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Finding docs connecting Vance to a Del Ray home was much harder than it usually is.
So I reached out to residents of that neighborhood, figuring they'd know. And they did (thanks)!
Even with that new knowledge, though, we were still only able to trace the ownership to an anonymous LLC.
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At that point, I set an alert on Zillow to notify me if Vance home ever hits the market.
I do this every time I report on a home.
A few weeks ago, I got the alert that it was for sale
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Alerts followed that a sale was pending and then that it was finalized.
Didn't think news was article-worthy yet.
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After I finished up some other reporting, I went back to it.
The sale had been reported elsewhere. Yikes!.
But as I read the stories, the beneficial owner was not revealed. So, story!
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Alexandria's records of the sale gave two places to start--
🏡 the buyer was 9 EDR LLC
🏡 the buyer had a DC address
Let's start by looking up the LLC.
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A search on Google for "9 EDR LLC" yielded a Bizpedia entry for a company registered in Nevada.
So off to Nevada's business portal we go for official confirmation.
Which we got: 9 EDR's managing member's address was the same as Vance's home.
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The LLC's registration also had a name: Christopher Garcia.
Now, to figure out some details about the buyer.
This step is so much easier when the subject is named Engelbert Humperdinck or something.
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But, thankfully, we had more info about Garcia--that DC address from the Alexandria real estate records (mentioned in post 7).
So I went to my go-to site for trying to verify someone's employer and occupation via official government records--the FEC's website.
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A search for donations from a Christopher Garcia with the address listed on the Alexandria real estate docs turned up a few hits.
And listed as the occupation was CEO of Health Supply US.
From here, it got easier...
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Browse Individual contributions - FEC.gov
Explore current and historic federal campaign finance data on the new fec.gov. Look at totals and trends, and see how candidates and committees raise and spend money. When you find what you need, export results and save custom links.FEC.gov
The campaign donations weren't significant, but the company's name was. From there, I could find---
✅ biographical info about Garcia, which led to determining he'd worked in Trump's first administration and consulted for a lobbying shop
✅ Health Supply US winning $179M of USG contracts
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All that reporting so far, other than asking neighbors to ID Vance's house, was from public records.
I then reached out to Garcia who, through a spox, confirmed much of the reporting about his background.
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Thanks for making it all the way to the end!
The article on Vance's home sale is free (no paywall). So please check it out and share it. Thanks!
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Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price
The buyer, a Trump appointee during his first term, denies any political motive—calling the $1.9 million deal purely market-driven.Zach Everson (Forbes)
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Update!
Alexandria, Va. just approved my request for remote access to its court docs.
Usha Vance is the sole member of Del Ray Farmhouse, LLC, per deed filed 3/18.
Confirms Vances' owned the home a gov't contractor/lobbyist/former Trump appointee paid $1.9M for ($170K over ask).
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@ingram Doesn't require pulling strings: anyone can request it from Google. And that photo on Bing is not of Vance's former house.
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SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It
I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about the war cabinet planning a military campaign on the Signal app. So a few brief thoughts.Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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It's kinda plausible that the Empire might bring in an 8 1/2 foot canary yellow biped bird in for questioning, plus Big Bird is being his usual cheery self.
This is the 1970s so he might get into an argument with Vader over whether Mr. Snuffleupagus is real.
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Jeffrey Goldberg was the only person in the secure chat who was NOT an idiot, and who was not breaking the law by sending classified information over a public network.
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"What did you do during the war, Great-Auntie?"
"Why, I took photos in the supermarket and tooted them, child."
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I'm reminded of these incredible supermarket staff who are the opposite of everyone fearfully erasing websites & social programmes in the US now. They braved vilification too, only belatedly being recognised as principled people who inspired a mass boycott.
‘In 1984, a 21-year-old Irish shopworker refused to serve a customer buying two South African grapefruits. Mary Manning was suspended from Dunnes Stores and 10 of her colleagues walked out alongside her in protest.’
BBC Audio | Witness History | The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
In 1984, 11 Dunnes store workers walked out after refusing to handle South African goodsBBC News
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@SorenMRiis Og den gang var konklusionen, at den slags boykot ikke havde den ønskede effekt, andet end feel good hos de involverede naturligvis. Måske var det også lige der, hvor billige marmeladevine fra Sydamerika boomede?
Jeg fornemmer dog, at boykotten i dag kan have lidt større effekter, fordi den er bredere forankret og retter sig mod alle varegrupper.
I starten af 1997, ligeledes så langt som jeg husker det, offentliggjorde den franske forening vineksportører, at det (1996) havde været et katastrofeår for eksporten af franske vine.
Vælg selv din konklusion.
Nok sværere at finde udtalelsen fra kommunikationschef en.
Men det er ikke noget jeg vil bruge tid på.
Cc @CiaraNi @SorenMRiis
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Have a great day. 🙂
I think this is great. It is so hard to know exactly where some products come from.
There seem to be just a few large corporations controlling most of the production. While intentionally hiding the origin. (looking at you Nestlé)
Drop what you're doing and read this incredible story, which recounts how a reporter for The Atlantic was inadvertently included in a private Signal discussion group that appears to have included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sec. of State Marco Rubio and other administration officials discussing plans for an upcoming U.S. military assault on Yemen.
The reporter, Jeff Goldberg, said he was convinced it was all an elaborate hoax as they laid out the pros and cons of specific attack options, and discussed targets over the course of a week. That is, until they shared on the Signal chat exactly where and when the targets in Yemen would be hit, and then those targets got hit exactly when they'd said.
"The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen."
"I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
"According to the lengthy Hegseth text, the first detonations in Yemen would be felt two hours hence, at 1:45 p.m. eastern time. So I waited in my car in a supermarket parking lot. If this Signal chat was real, I reasoned, Houthi targets would soon be bombed. At about 1:55, I checked X and searched Yemen. Explosions were then being heard across Sanaa, the capital city."
"I went back to the Signal channel. At 1:48, “Michael Waltz” had provided the group an update. Again, I won’t quote from this text, except to note that he described the operation as an “amazing job.” A few minutes later, “John Ratcliffe” wrote, “A good start.” Not long after, Waltz responded with three emoji: a fist, an American flag, and fire. Others soon joined in, including “MAR,” who wrote, “Good Job Pete and your team!!,” and “Susie Wiles,” who texted, “Kudos to all – most particularly those in theater and CENTCOM! Really great. God bless.” “Steve Witkoff” responded with five emoji: two hands-praying, a flexed bicep, and two American flags."
"I have never seen a breach quite like this. It is not uncommon for national-security officials to communicate on Signal. But the app is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistical matters—not for detailed and highly confidential discussions of a pending military action. And, of course, I’ve never heard of an instance in which a journalist has been invited to such a discussion."
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
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for example, if this was a classified thingy, they should've used siprnet apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD… or even cellcrypt with the DMCC-S DoD Mobility Classified Capability - Secret 2.0.5
even if client side encryption is utilized, DOD still has the keys to see messages and determine what they can do in these situations
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I dropped what I was doing and now I'm parked in a ditch. What do I do next?
I caught this story earlier. Absolute incompetence! I almost want to get off of Signal just because these fuck heads are using it.
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@danie10 cellcrypt. disa.mil/~/media/files/disa/fa…
o and btw, I just now found out they have an XMPP server
but also you might be right in some instence, because DSO (basically a military version of github) has this on matrix
repo1.dso.mil/dsop/opensource/…
so the military certainly knows it exists and probably uses it.
I wonder if they ever modified it to run on post quantum cryptography algorithms
Here in the US, after today no large media company or government official will ever mention this again.
esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documen…
The NYT is reporting that the National Security Council has confirmed the screw up:
“At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” Brian Hughes, the National Security Council spokesman, said in an emailed statement. He called the thread “a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials.”
"Several Defense Department officials said that having the type of conversation that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others had in a Signal chat group could be a violation of the Espionage Act. Revealing operational war plans before planned strikes could also put American troops directly into harm’s way, the officials said."
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Maybe it's just me, but the casualness of the messages / group chat immediately brings up the question "are these people even using secure devices?"
Seems like a full blown investigation into the breach is probably required
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"...we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain"
THAT'S what they're reviewing? They're not reviewing how a non-sanctioned app was used to send top secret government information? How this was clearly done on non-secure devices?
And yet they'll still complain about #HillarysEmails
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Demand Defense Secretary Hegseth's Resignation after Unbelievable Security Breach ⭑ 5 Calls
On March 24, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic reported being accidentally included in a group chat where Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared …5 Calls
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All I can think about is Google's report last month that Russian threat actors are exploding Signal's device paring feature to get full copies of new chats and full chat histories.
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/t…
Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger
Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.Google Threat Intelligence Group (Google Cloud)
how come no one is asking;
who did they think they were looping in?
Was it their handler? tRump lies about everything, someone wanted proof.
Was it their stock broker? when we start a war with a country usually the stock market reacts. Brokers for venture #capitalist need to know what is going to happen so they can front run the market for you.
My bet is on the broker.
#democracy is more than voting.
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@Dhmspector That thought had definitely occurred to me. I'd not been aware of and/or forgotten that Signal auto-deletes content, in violation of US gov't data retention laws.
Thanks.
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@Wolfi As I've seen discussed elsewhere, there are other problems presented:
- Smartphones themselves are conspicuously insecure, and even the use of secure protocols and apps leaves other avenues of attack on the device open.
- Signal apparently has provisions for sharing or forwarding conversations, and at least one of the discussion participants was in Russia at the time of the discussion, which ... raises further concerns.
- Features which would be desirable for secure comms (e.g., ACLs, or ensuring that all members of a given discussion have specific security clearances) are missing from the app. If one could, say, issue invites to a group of people and only permit those with specific certifications / security clearances from participating, joining, or even being notified of the discussion the picture would be improved, though other issues (mentioned above or otherwise) could still present themselves.
- Casual observations from public use / use outside SCIF could present information leaks.
OpSec is exceedingly poor here.
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one of my first thoughts, since the whole mar a Lago classified docs in the bathroom thing. (Actually wasn't there an incident before then during the first term where some secret agents were doxxed by him?)
Like I think to simplify everything, whenever these goons do anything, you have to assume it's traitorous and self serving at this point
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And Rightly so, my fellow Americans are learning the Hard LOOONG Way about re-electing this asswipe whose Qualities match the same as the Anti-Christ.
We cose this PIMP-putins Daughter Fuckin, Money Laundering Russian ASS-set over a Law Abiding Women.
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The problem right now is that all Americans are getting painted with the same brush even though millions of us didn't vote for the fucktard-o-rama.
Republicans are incompetent, illiterate dipshits. And cowards.
It's incredible.
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Listening to the news from USA is like deja vu for me, when Polish right wing government used Gmail instead of the secure government mail: pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afera_…
Wikipedia unfortunately has only Polish version, but maybe translator will work.
I general I see that US do what United Right in Poland did, but scale and consequences are much worse.
I don't suspect they are so cunning, able to plan, etc.
They ignored procedures and protocols because the feeling of the impunity.
And they seemed to be right, Trump dismissed dangerous behaviour as "glitch".
By their carelessness they show that they don't give a flying flamingo for the safety of the soldiers, whose life was at stake.
@merigold @SteveClough @shigella strong disagreement here.
Secure comms are extremely available for the Cabinet members. These people are the kind that would brag about being important enough to have them.
But then their conversations are documented by the government. THATs why they are noping out.
When doing the right thing is easy, there is generally a reason for doing the wrong thing.
What I haven’t (yet) seen mention of, is that this sets back the US intelligence community a generation.
Goldberg says it twice: once that they were texting “related to actual and current intelligence operations,” and once that their texts if read by an adversary could “harm American … intelligence personnel,” in “shocking recklessness.”
Who would risk serving their country in HUMINT overseas, knowing these asswipes are burning agents in group chats with randos?
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What nobody is talking about is
Hegseth: POTUS retains 24 hour decision space
Steven Miller: nah man, POTUS is golfing. I know what the President wants, just do it.
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Now Europe Knows What Trump’s Team Calls It Behind Its Back: ‘Pathetic’
Trump officials have demanded more European military spending and questioned the continent’s values. Leaked messages show the depth of the rift.Jeanna Smialek (The New York Times)
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Of course, the White House claims no classified data was shared. What else would they say?
Calling Goldberg's coverage of this monumental and unprecedented OPSEC fail by a US presidential administration "sensationalist" is beyond the pale. Given the volume of sensitive information shared with him unsolicited via Signal, Mr. Goldberg's reporting demonstrated that he exercised remarkable restraint in not publishing a great deal of what he was given.
Whether it's sending Com kids in to monkey with taxpayer databases, setting up Starlink antennas on top of the White House complex for "faster Wi-Fi," or granting TS/SCI clearances to anyone without a thorough background check, this administration’s overall approach to security measures is to go around them, or just pretend they don’t exist for a good reason.
The administration is really hoping they can just sweep this one under the rug. That can't be allowed to happen, because this is not going to be an isolated event.
From the NYT:
"Two of the Trump administration’s top intelligence officials denied that classified information was shared in an encrypted group chat in which details of an attack on Yemen were discussed in the presence of a journalist who had been mistakenly added to the conversation."
"The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding a previously scheduled briefing on global threats with Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence; John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director; and the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel. Pressed repeatedly about the security breach, Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Ratcliffe both denied that classified material had been shared in the chat. Mr. Patel declined to say if the F.B.I. had begun an investigation."
"The White House also sought to downplay the serious nature of the extraordinary security breach, as bipartisan criticism of the incident grew on Tuesday and leading Democrats called for the resignation of the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who set up the group chat, and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who reportedly shared classified war plans in it."
Here are the latest developments:
Defending Waltz: President Trump defended Mr. Waltz, saying in an interview with NBC News that the national security adviser had “learned a lesson” and suggested a staff member was to blame for including a journalist in the secret group chat.
Bipartisan criticism: The vice chairman of the intelligence committee, Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, denounced what he called “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” by the country’s top intelligence officials. Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, told reporters that the White House should “be honest and own up” to what happened.
"Damage control: The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said no classified material was sent to the group chat, and she attacked the journalist who revealed it, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, as “sensationalist.” Her statement came a day after Mr. Hegseth suggested the leak was a “hoax” even as the White House confirmed that messages he sent to it appeared to be authentic."
Trump Team Signal Leak Live Updates: Officials Deny Classified War Plans Were Shared in Group Chat
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee denounced what he called “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” by the country’s top intelligence officials, after a journalist was mistakenly included in a group chat about a strike in Yemen.The New York Times
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I only found a few from hack read and senitor cane, but haven't found any official military or US government statements for this.
here's the link to kane's report:
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Kaine & Colleagues Demand Answers about Trump Cabinet Officials’ Use of Unsecured Group Chat for Military Planning | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, and 13 of his Senate...www.kaine.senate.gov
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I thought 'DUI hire with prison gang tattoos' Hegseth's denial was interesting. Technically he's correct that he didn't share classified material via text message - if by 'text message' you mean traditional SMS or RCS carried by cell carriers.
Kind of like saying "I've never even driven out to the old quarry where they found the bodies" when you were a passenger in the car.
Now we know why the Trump regime fired so many military lawyers, the Judge Advocate General (JAG) officers who might have prevented this.
Tip of the iceberg, anyone?
#Signal #OpSec #Incompetence #Hegseth #Waltz #Trump #Failure #TuckersBalls
"suggested a staff member was to blame" = completely unfamiliar with the concept and practice of responsibility.
Not suprised, mind you. Just (again) pissed off and disgusted.
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@swelljoe How is it unfair? Humpty Hump was an engaging instructor with a lifetime of experience and a distinctive voice that kept one's attention. When he spoke, people listened. His advice was always salient and memorable.
We couldn't have asked for a better OPSEC instructor.
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this is really bad Opsec. There is an inadvertent negative though. Unfortunately Signal is now being called "unsecure" by media, which is not the same in this context as "insecure" I hope that part doesn't stick to the Signal Foundation in people's minds.
They shouldn't be using Signal, but only because it wasn't approved by the government for use. Signal is secure. It's just not DOD approved on device or for this sensitive govt communication.
ABC posted: abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-…
Messages with Yemen war plans inadvertently shared with reporter appears 'authentic': Official
The messages were shared via an unsecure group chat on Signal.Fritz Farrow (ABC News)
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Remember when Pete Hegseth said anyone reckless with sensitive government information should be fired on the spot and criminally prosecuted?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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That's a long term memory item so yeah, it's gone. Not remembering helps with denial of severe problems. No guilt! Whoo hoo. Add in increasingly rigid thinking.
With my dad I called it Pickle Brain. The official term is alcoholic dementia.
@FrozenPeach @rob11563
Yes -- Korsakoff Syndrome.
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/…
Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a type of memory disorder that requires immediate treatment. It’s caused by a lack of vitamin B1, often due to alcohol overuse.Cleveland Clinic
By this point it has become hard to see pointing out their hypocrisy as anything more than a waste of effort.
Worse - their strategy is to exhaust us; even highlighting their errors has become tiring..
#doom
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Oh boy, my top secret government info has arrived!
You are officially an old person if you heard the sound when you saw this post.
What a hypocrite Hegseth is. It is a pity that people who are caught past out drunk (Hegseth) while in office, don’t get fired also…
“The sworn statement, submitted in response to a request from Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, was signed by Hegseth’s former sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth. It states that she was with Hegseth when he passed out from drunkenness in the bathroom of a bar”
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This is not a game.
Remember when #Trump very likely sold #nuclear secrets to a #Saudi murderer?
Remember when #Trump kept #topsecret documents in his shitter?
Breaking our #nationalsecurity with no #consequences makes perfect sense when you understand that these people are all grossly #unqualified & likely #Russian #assets.
#Whiskeyleaks
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Makes it all the more eearie ... I need to learn more about this building? Town? Leviathan?
I think I must know it as an icon never named from art and stories, but I had no idea that anything real that looked like this existed somewhere.
I was looking into the history of this place and found this interesting video with some footage from 44 of correspondents who stayed in the area as they tried to get in to Paris to cover the war.
Some of them died in their efforts. It's especially arresting because it's in color.
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One of the interesting things about Mont St Michel is that there's two of them. Sort of.
There is Mont St Michel in Normandy and, over the other side of the English Channel, there is St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. They are both tidal islands with medieval buildings on them and they share a name, though I will admit that the French version is the more impressive looking of the two.
amazing place!
There is an odd indie film from the 1990s that was filmed there: rottentomatoes.com/m/mindwalk
Mindwalk | Rotten Tomatoes
Jack Edwards (Sam Waterston) is a disillusioned former presidential candidate who escapes to France to see his friend Thomas Harriman (John Heard), an expatriate poet. They travel to Mont Saint-Michel, speaking philosophically about their lives.Rotten Tomatoes
AH! I remember that, or at least the ads for it before the movies at the little art house cinema I hung out at as a teen. It has that actor from Law and Order in it for some reason.
I don't remember if it was any good, but it has a "vibe" that's attractive.
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After two happy years on the Fediverse (and many more to come as I feel so at home here), time for an updated #introduction post!
You will find me sharing mostly #LandscapePhotography, #NightPhotography, #MacroPhotography and #BirdPhotography.
I am also interested in #astronomy and #LightPollution.
Looking forward to continuing to have a great time on this platform.
Below are a few of my landscape photos.
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The MOST inept administration in US history.
'Shocking recklessness': Trump’s defense department accidentally texted war plans to reporter
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'Shocking recklessness': Trump’s defense department accidentally texted war plans to reporter
On Saturday, March 15, President Donald Trump announced military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. The news broke in the afternoon, but The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg found out about the operation before other journalists.Alex Henderson (Alternet.org)
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Tesla is under investigation in Canada for falsifying thousands of sales to game our rebate system.
What if some of the vandalism at Tesla dealerships in the USA were simply insurance fraud scams?
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we would not be in the least surprised.
that or false flag attacks to protect the melon.
I assume Tesla has remote capability to start a fire. They used remote door unlocking to help control the fire at the Trump hotel but won't use it to release burning victims at an accident.
I don't doubt they have more capability than they admit to publicly.
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@gooba42 Dead people can't claim damages. Makes sense to lock them in #SpaceKaren's volatile #swasticars.
Do #Tesla 'owners' really, actually, own the product. They most certainly own any liabilities. 😂
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They Filtered US sales through Canadian warehouses, so they could claim they were sold in Canada?
I've been saying this, some of these fires are vandalism (necessary vandalism) but a lot could be business owners getting rid of stock they know they aren't going to sell now.
Capitalism will be Capitalism....
Remember that we have already seen in the past many less educated Americans vandalizing and using violence during various demonstrations.
Who is overtondoors talking too? The JJ***" account on Mastodon.social? I can't see what that account said.
I hadn't considered this but it would not be the first time MAGA sstans have autograffitied their properties trying to blame some portion of the woke left (especially BLM). It wouldn't be only the 20th either.
usatoday.com/story/news/nation…
Man pleads guilty to faking 'BLM' vandalism over a Trump flag, setting own camper on fire
A man who said his camper was lit on fire over a "Trump 2020" flag pleaded guilty to fraud and admitted to staging the attack.Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
US who knows - maybe MAGA really will buy them all 8)
Some twat soliciting useful idiots. Likely a Tesla Pinkerton or white-nationalist cybercrime police unit. If your into "fun" activities in your free time I take no exception to that, excepting the ones that put the fediverse at risk. Op-sec pracis is respect.
@OvertonDoors ooo someone touched a nerve. How does it feel to have your love and your kid rejected by Eeklon the Nazi scum?
Putrid white trash boffo clown cunt-for-brains thug.
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It seemed from the article that separate from legal effects of the EO, that as DOJ is reviewing whether to drop the charges against the client, being associated with an unfavored lawfirm is worse than just that the lawfirm can't access building or classified material.
Even having the EO blocked wouldn't help when everyone knows DOJ is vengeful in their prosecutorial decisions rather than principled.
Another 1A, freedom of association, is destroyed.
Wow. The US Treasury Dept. today announced it is lifting sanctions on Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that state-sponsored hackers from North Korea have been massively using to launder their stolen billions.
"Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by use of financial sanctions against financial and commercial activity occurring within evolving technology and legal environments, we have exercised our discretion to remove the economic sanctions against Tornado Cash as reflected in Treasury’s Monday filing in Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury."
home.treasury.gov/news/press-r…
h/t to @ncweaver for the heads up. Weaver said: "The US government has just said "money laundering is legal as long as the process is automated."
"Every wei that flows through Tornado Cash, even if 'legitimate,' is helping the North Korean nuclear regime by hiding illegitimate flows," Weaver told me.
Here's Treasury sanctioning Tornado Cash in 2022: home.treasury.gov/news/press-r…
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Notorious Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, which has been used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019…U.S. Department of the Treasury
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money laundering is legal as long as the process is automated.
Next thing you know, automated killing will be legal too, as long as it's automated?
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@phil_stevens if Russia was thinking ahead, they'd have switched much of their agriculture to popcorn production.
Brian, Tornado Cash is a *protocol*. Sanctioning it and its inventors is like sanctioning an encryption algorithm, because "it helps criminals". It flies in the face of 1s Amendment and I think there was a court ruling that basically "you can't do that".
By all means, sanction those who use the protocol for laundering money. But the protocol itself?!
Fifth Circuit Rejects OFAC’s Tornado Cash Sanctions
In a ruling eagerly awaited by the cryptocurrency industry, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that immutable smart contracts on the Tornado Cash crypto-transaction software protocol are not “property” subject to the sanctions jurisdi…www.morganlewis.com
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“#Bitcoin (and other #crypto currencies) is like rat poison squared.” - Warren Buffett
#WashingtonHasFallen and rats 🐀 that have been given #immunity by the corrupt #SCOTUS have overtaken #USpol. #Resist and #DoNotComply.
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Crypto currency is how they siphon off the money we actually have. Put our reserves into crypto and POOF!
Oh, we'll know the numbers. All of them. We may even eventually be able to prove that it all went to Russia or whatever. For all the good it'll do.
Well, you certainly CAN sanction autonomous protocols, you'll just look like a fool when folks realize your sanctions have no power over them.
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