Karl Bode

I could never put it past these psychopaths

they want one SO bad

Trump's War If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

“Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. ‘I guess,’ he says.”

maybe just one little one as a treat

Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar

BREAKING NYT:

Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

He wasted no time...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

Well and this is just the stuff that's leaking out

I think a lot about this paragraph from a nextgov story last summer

"Making investigations into the breach more complicated is that multiple telecom providers have invoked legal strategies to protect themselves from disclosing compromise by the hackers. Inside two major U.S. telecom operators, incident response staff have been instructed by outside counsel not to look for signs of Salt Typhoon, said one of the people, declining to name the firms because the matter is sensitive."

I think a lot about this paragraph from a nextgov story last summer

"It’s not clear whether the latest “suspicious activity” uncovered by the FBI is connected to the serious Salt Typhoon breach attributed to Chinese intelligence that affected a variety of US government networks."

I bet it is!

(after a multi-year audit that throws a ton of money at all the telecoms and IT vendors partially responsible for lax standards and who sucked up to fascism for deregulation and tax breaks)

If we survive this kakistocracy we really are probably going to have to completely rebuild the entirety of U.S. IT infrastructure

FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network | CNN Politics The FBI identified a suspected cybersecurity breach on a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants, and officials working to determine the seriousness of the inc...

suspected breach of FBI network used to house "wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants." 👀👀👀

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Pre merger promises are always utterly hollow and pointless bullshit, and doubly so for this nepobaby

And even if he did, which he's not, CNN is extremely friendly to authoritarian ideology, if Scott jennings' platforming is any indication

true

yeah the villains in Warren Ellis' transmetropolitan weren't even this bad

I'd assume so, probably a different blankie

he's running for president

I mean your original point is right. "trans rights are human rights, next question" is the right stance. Also go on offense, don't sit there defending right wing talking points. dictate the polling through messaging and media manipulation, don't sit there stewing in the fight Republicans want you in

David Ellison Vows CNN Will Operate Independently as Paramount Buys Warner Bros.: ‘We Want to Be in the Truth Business’ Paramount Skydance's David Ellison maintained that CNN will remain an editorially independent news organization after his company closes its deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.

he not only lies about this, he lies and says editorial independence is being "maintained at CBS."

the editorial overton window at corporate media only slides one direction. It's not subtle.

I'm afraid he may be even worse

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I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:

Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov