According to election administrators and investigators, confirmed cases of unlawful voting are vanishingly rare. In a new Cato Podcast episode, Walter Olson and Stephen Richer explore how voter roll audits work and what the evidence reveals about the scale of the problem.
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In which @nataliekorach.bsky.social outlines the actions of the man the White House Correspondents Association has chosen to honor this year. www.status.news/p/donald-tru...
Without Trump’s trade wars since 2017, US exports to China would have been nearly 60 percent higher in 2025, or roughly $90 billion annually.
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A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask rolled down the window, leaned out — and addressed Emily by name.
"She yelled, 'Emily, Emily, we're going to take you home!' Then she looked at her phone and she recited my home address," she says.
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-CyberCom conducted cyberattacks in Iran attacks
-Russia aims for RuNet independence by 2028
-Chrome moves to 2-week release cycle
-Google finds a new iOS exploit kit, possibly linked to US govt
-CBP tracks people with ad data
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Words cannot express the insanity of slapping across-the-board inflationary tariffs in the middle of waging an inflationary war. It’s like they’re trying to crash the market or someth— ah, I see now
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The Deputy Attorney General just rescinded the policy against no knock warrants in most cases. That policy was an important public safety measure. Restricting their use saved lives. Breonna Taylor died because of one. www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/u...
The US has fewer counterintelligence officers who have experience with Iran because a few years ago those US officers did their jobs properly and assisted with a judge-signed search warrant regarding a criminal theft of US defense secrets, which the search found a lot of evidence of.
Seriously.
Trump was raised in a family that disparaged military service. He thinks people “dumb” enough to serve have what’s coming to them. Remember what he told the widow of the soldier who was killed in Niger: “he knew what he signed up for”
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Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
My instant reaction at 3 a.m. yesterday was not whether Khamenei would be killed or oil prices or anything else but this
This undeclared, unexplained war is illegal. Full stop
28 hours later, it is still the worse abuse of power in U.S. history. Impeach
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Discussing DOJ pardons and corruption with there fabulous @lawyeroyer.com
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Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.
"The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians." www.cfr.org/articles/oba...
CISA warns that RESURGE malware can be dormant on Ivanti devices www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Tehran may be “known for its retaliatory cyberattacks” but that record has to be contextualized against the level of leadership decapitation (SL, MOIS, IRGC) going on. The human operators in the relevant offensive cyber units are going to have more…pressing concerns in a potentially collapsing state
Sam Altman is doing a Twitter AMA and this was the most striking thing I saw. He's claimed there are circumstances where he'd pull OpenAI from the Pentagon if it was doing something unconstitutional, but has made his peace with ChatGPT bolstering US efforts to spy on the rest of the world.
This
The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.
Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity
The early successes of the Iran strikes are not sufficient to banish concern about the feckless way the United States has gone about launching this war, argues Eliot A. Cohen:
This this this! Though I'd argue the Maduro regime is still the Maduro regime, too.
see this is actually a quite good statement
ICYMI: Watch @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @sranderson.bsky.social, @alanrozenshtein.com, @rparloff.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, Troy Edwards, and @mollyroberts.bsky.social discuss the superseding indictment in the case against Don Lemon, the standoff between DOD and Anthropic, and more.
Trump is pursuing war in Iran without congressional approval, with little appetite among his base for another regime-change operation in the Middle East, and with allies in the region having discouraged it, @nancyayoussef.bsky.social and @jonlemire.bsky.social report:
When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.
Two thoughts:
1. If you don’t live in or haven’t visited SF in the last few years, I cannot underscore enough enough how big/prominent the AI sector has become to local economy.
2. The Anthropic/DOD battle has the *potential* to cause the greatest DC-Silicon Valley rift since the Snowden fallout.
“Trump’s position is that the government cannot pressure Facebook to take down anti-vaccine posts, but it can coerce Anthropic into making a version of Claude that kills people without a human in the loop.”
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced a “war on fraud,” a term that the administration has used in increasingly broad and deceptive ways. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
