…try as the man has to hold the line that there’s nothing to see here & it’s terribly unfair & probably nasty to say there might be…this shit is not getting less embarrassing
The private data of top security advisers to US President Donald Trump can be accessed online, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday, adding to the fallout from the officials’ use of a Signal group chat to plan airstrikes on Yemen.
Mobile phone numbers, email addresses and in some cases passwords used by national security adviser Mike Waltz, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard can be found via commercial data-search services and hacked data dumped online, it reported. It is not clear in all cases how recent the details are.
…&…sure…maybe those are all old & not valid…but…you don’t have to be hilary to see the hypocrisy is pretty rank…& mostly has to do with knowing an accurate reflection of how you comport yourself in government would be…poorly received…&…all the criming might be a bit of an issue…even the ones they don’t know enough to know the rules against
…the atlantic releasing the chat verbatim does rather make it clear the lady was talking before that part…if you really think the timetable for that sort of thing while things are in flight isn’t the sort of information you’d want to treat like it was classified…let’s go on & hope vainly it might mean you don’t make those sorts of decisions?
…I don’t give a fuck about their “yeah, but, no, but” children’s story about how the president can de-classify whatever he likes…if you want to double down on how dumb you’re telling me you are…I can’t stop you…but…this is what passes for world fucking peace in a less than peaceful world that you’re fucking with…dipshits
The Trump administration has been facing calls for the resignation of senior officials amid bipartisan criticism after Monday’s embarrassing revelations. The chat group, which included vice-president JD Vance, Hegseth, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and others, discussed sensitive plans to carry out strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen via the Signal app, potentially threatening the safety of US servicemen and women taking part in the operation.
On Wednesday evening, Trump backed Hegseth, saying “He had nothing to do with this” and calling the scandal a “witch-hunt”.
…fuck it…call a witch a witch…or call pete a fucking piss artist…if you turned the whole shower of them into newts…we’d be better off…so…yeah…maybe it won’t happen…but fucking firing some of these assholes wouldn’t be a terrible start…if the newt thing isn’t an option?
Der Spiegel reported it was “particularly easy” to discover Hegseth’s mobile number and email address, using a commercial provider of contact information. It found that the email address, and in some cases even the password associated with it, could be found in more than 20 data leaks. It reported that it was possible to verify that the email address was used just a few days ago.
It said the mobile number led to a WhatsApp account that Hegseth appeared to have only recently deleted.
The Gabbard and Waltz numbers were reportedly linked to accounts on messaging services WhatsApp and Signal. Der Spiegel said that left them exposed to having spyware installed on their devices.
It said it was even possible foreign agents were spying during the recent Signal group chat on top-secret US plans for airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels on 15 March.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/donald-trump-us-signal-scandal-passwords
…we all saw people lie to the westminster parliament & stroll on while the ettiquette demanded anyone who called them a liar got their wrist smacked for using the l-word in the place…but…you got headline purjury from the dipshits who bragged about a clean opsec bill while *telling that to the press they didn’t notice they pulled into the damn room*…if you don’t fucking fire someone’s ass…you make yourself a literal joke…no cap
Legal scholars say the president’s menacing attacks, some of which Trump’s biggest campaign backer, the billionaire Elon Musk, has echoed, are aimed at silencing critics of his radical agenda and undercut the rule of law in authoritarian ways that expand his own powers.
“Trump’s moves are from the authoritarian playbook,” said the Harvard law school lecturer and retired Massachusetts judge Nancy Gertner. “You need to delegitimize institutions that could be critics. Trump is seeking to use the power of the presidency to delegitimize institutions including universities, law firms, judges and others. It’s the opposite of American democracy.”
In a stunning move on Tuesday, Trump railed that a top Washington DC judge ought to be impeached for ruling to halt the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans allegedly including gang members, sparking the chief justice of the supreme court, John Roberts, hours later to issue a strong statement against calls to impeach judges for their rulings.
…in a relative sense…which statement lands like the stronger punch…that one from the supreme dear john…or the “fuck your questions I’m only talking to the people too dumb to see what I’m doing as embarrassing” approach favored by your full-MAGA?
…I mean…that’s…well, it’s not a good look…but the thing about it is it’s easy to overlook it…it seems less of a thing to make a fuss about than…oh, I dunno…context plays its part
…but…how messy a bitch they want to make america be?
…maybe the good people trying to hang on to that whole “rule of law” thing we cling to like linus & that blanket don’t have the online chops of the wendy’s or the parks service people…but…they’re still kicking
…the body politic is vaguely indicating it might have remembered putting an immune response somewhere but it hasn’t really used it before so that still looks like a series of fumbles more than anything…with a very uneven distribution of points-for-trying
…&…I dunno…I keep thinking to myself…the self-selecting audience thing really flips some stuff…like…it’s hard to wrap your head around…or maybe it just hurts to force so much of your brain to pretend it doesn’t notice…but…imagine reading the original exchange here
…&…before but most especially after the promotional account for a gaming franchise dunked on your ass…adding to the small side of that ratio
…seriously…who…paid or for free…is gagging their self-respect to the point that they’re trying to soften that blow one like at a time…& not walking around like they take shots to the head for a living?
…& it’s not that they’re wholly immune to the shame they’re basking in
Republican senators seek investigation into Signal leak scandal [Guardian]
…&…he made a bunch more car payments a whole bunch of less cheap the other side of the tariffs he’d rather the press would suckle his teats about…but…these people need to be hearing about how pissed america is to have them out there with their pants down turning the pride of the free world into a walk of shame?
…&…ok…we’ve all got other things we could be doing…some of them we might even actually want to do…or…come with a better sort of laugh
…or…you know…split the difference
…&…this sort of thing is…less fun
…look…I’m not looking to tell anyone their business…or cast undue aspersions…to go back to how perspective can make a big difference…if you live in a place that gets earthquakes…or maybe has a tendency to burn to the ground…this sort of thing is just basic…but…for the EU to be saying it to people who live all over fucking mainland europe?
Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens [Guardian]
…if that doesn’t land like a slap in the face…you may be experiencing some form of sedation…just sayin’
The president signed an executive order on Tuesday targeting the firm Jenner & Block over its previous employment of Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor who worked on Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s connections to Russia. The order came after Trump issued similar executive orders targeting three other firms – Covington and Burling, Perkins Coie, and Paul Weiss – over their representation of his political rivals.
Those orders have threatened to cripple the firms by revoking the security clearances of their lawyers, ending access to government buildings and forcing clients who do business with the government to disclose if they are represented by the firm. Trump also issued a separate executive order on Friday directing US attorney general Pam Bondi to investigate lawyers taking actions to block the administration’s priorities.
Scholars and experts say there is little doubt that Trump’s executive orders are a thinly-veiled effort to intimidate lawyers who might otherwise challenge the administration. The actions undermine a key element of the American democratic system by limiting the ability of potential adversaries to access the judicial system, one of the most powerful checks on executive power.
[…]
“Paul Weiss’s deal emboldened him to ratchet up his attack on one of the strongest checks on his power: lawyers and the rule of law,” David Perez, a partner at Perkins Coie, wrote in a post on Sunday on LinkedIn. “Now more than ever law firms and lawyers across the political spectrum have to stand up for our timeless values.” Perkins Coie is suing the administration over the order and won a temporary restraining order blocking it.US district judge Beryl Howell said during a hearing in the Perkins Coie suit that the order “sends little chills down my spine” and wrote in her ruling “such a circumstance threatens the very foundation of our legal systemâ€.
Trump’s intimidation campaign may be working. There has been no unified response from the country’s biggest and most well-known law firms. “We waited for firms to support us in the wake of the President’s executive order targeting Paul Weiss,” Brad Karp, the firm’s chair, wrote in an email to employees on Sunday. “Disappointingly, far from support, we learned that certain other firms were seeking to exploit our vulnerabilities by aggressively soliciting our clients and recruiting our attorneys.”
Former Biden administration officials are having trouble finding lawyers to represent them, the Washington Post reported. And civil rights and non-profit lawyers, who traditionally get pro bono assistance from major firms, say there is a general wariness from big law firms on challenging the administration. And when firms do help, they want to keep it quiet and don’t want their names on publicly filed court documents.
Some firms also appear to be revising their web pages that detail their pro bono work. The firm Davis Polk, for example, appears to have recently removed references to racial justice and immigration from the pro bono page on its website, according to a Guardian review of an archived version of the page. As of 17 March, the firm’s pro-bono page included the statement: “We are proud to have a large team of full-time pro bono lawyers, with members focusing on litigation, corporate and transactional, racial justice, and humanitarian immigration matters.” Today, it no longer exists.
Davis Polk did not immediately return a request for comment on the changes.
The law firms’ fears are well founded. Elon Musk, a top Trump adviser, has already suggested targeting the firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom because of its pro bono work representing a Georgia man who was falsely accused of voter fraud in the film 2,000 Mules. The conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who made the movie, apologized to Andrews last year, but nonetheless recommended targeting Skadden.
“Skadden Arps is the firm engaged in systematic lawfare against ‘2000 Mules.’ They have an army of 17 attorneys working pro-bono against me. I have 2 lawyers. The Left’s game is to ruin us through protracted, costly litigation,” he wrote on Twitter/X. Musk reposted the comment and said “Skadden this needs to stop now.”
…if they’re drawing up teams the way they look to be
More than 140 alumni of Paul Weiss signed a letter to the law firm’s chair on Monday condemning the agreement the law firm reached with Trump last week and said it was complicit in “what is perhaps the gravest threat to the independence of the legal profession since at least the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy”.
“The very independence of lawyers and the legal profession is at stake. We are therefore profoundly saddened, and deeply outraged, that the firm in which we heretofore took pride has cowardly allowed itself to become instead a poster child for the administration’s efforts to silence dissent and impose a loyalty test on attorneys,” they wrote in the letter.
Rachel Cohen, an associate at Skadden, resigned after the Paul Weiss agreement became public. She had organized an open letter signed by hundreds of lawyers urging major law firms to do more. Her resignation letter calling out Skadden for not doing more went viral.
“It’s a capitalistic cowardice,” she said. “It is fear for the bottom line of firms that already clear billions and billions of dollars a year in revenue.”
…I feel pretty strongly about which side of their line I feel at home on
“Clients perceived our firm as being persona non grata with the Administration. We could prevent the executive order from taking effect, but we couldn’t erase it,” Karp wrote in his email to employees on Sunday. “Clients had told us that they were not going to be able to stay with us, even though they wanted to. It was very likely that our firm would not be able to survive a protracted dispute with the Administration.”
In its lawsuit challenging the executive order against it, Perkins Coie also detailed some of the financial toll the firm had taken. Nearly a quarter of the firm’s revenue was at risk – more than $343m in 2024 – because of the executive order, the lawyers wrote. Trump announced the executive order on 6 March and by the time Perkins Coie sued over it five days later, at half a dozen – some who had been with the firm for years – had left the firm.
Marc Elias, a prominent Democratic election lawyer who has been targeted by Trump, issued a statement on Saturday that his firm would not negotiate with the White House over who it represented.
“President Trump is attempting to dismantle the constitution and attack the rule of law in his obsessive pursuit of retribution against his political opponents. Today’s White House Memo targets not only me and my law firm, but every attorney and law firm who dares to challenge his assault on the rule of law,” his statement said. “President Trump’s goal is clear. He wants lawyers and law firms to capitulate and cower until there is no one left to oppose his Administration in court.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/trump-executive-orders-law-firms
…&…this is about 20mins late already…eh…sue me?
…don’t do that…we need that court time for something constructive…but…you know what I mean…I will try to finish this up…at least in so far as I ever seem to finish yammering away
…here…take one of these…that’ll hold you for a minute
…lawyers aren’t traditional cannon fodder…but…unless we make sport actually a formal substitute for violent tribal conflict resolution…a lot of the front lines are going to be so dry & boring & full of detail they might as well be deserts in a world full of beaches…with blackjack…& hookers…so…sometimes…maybe I do want to know how the sausage gets made…& how it looks to the butcher
…& russell there…might not be richard pryor level make-having-a-heart-attack-funny…but…he tries
…I…just find a lot of stuff trying, I guess?
…how did it go again…take him seriously but not literally, I think it was…how’s that working out for us…eh, chief?
The world looks different from the North Pole. Most maps chart the planet from east to west. But look at the world from the top down, and you suddenly see America’s relative position anew. Russia dominates the region. Greenland suddenly seems important, as does Canada. China, a “near-Arctic” nation, is a bit too close for comfort. The US, by comparison, is small. Alaska, its biggest state by territory, is a fraction of the view.
That world view is at the centre of the Trump administration’s new goal to “make shipbuilding great again”, courtesy of an upcoming executive order (which may drop as early as this week). This lays out the most ambitious industrial strategy in the shipbuilding sector since the Americans turned out 2,710 “liberty ships” in the space of four years during the second world war.
It will also be a topic at Monday’s Office of the US Trade Representative hearings on proposed remedies to combat China’s ringfencing of the global maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors.
In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires battled for primacy in central Asia, in a multi-decade struggle that became known as the “Great Game”. The territorial lines drawn across Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet and India in this period defined the geopolitics and economics of the next century.
Today, there is a new Great Game being played — not in central Asia, nor even in modern hot zones such as Ukraine, Gaza or the South China Sea, but rather in the frigid waters of the Arctic. Dominance in this region will be crucial to strategic control of the entire western hemisphere, which is a goal of the Trump administration.
BlackRock’s agreement to buy ports in the Panama Canal from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing goes some way towards that goal. This comes at a time when military experts say risk is as high as it has been in decades thanks to increased piracy, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Black Sea, underwater cable snapping in the Baltic, Houthi rebel attacks in the Red Sea and more Chinese military activity in the Pacific.
But the Arctic, where the Chinese and Russians conducted naval drills together last year, is one of the few places where new sea routes are actually opening (due to climate change). A key element of the new Great Game will be building US maritime capacity to exploit mineral resources and lanes of commerce, lay new fibre optic communication cables that can be better policed by America, and create more security presence in the region.
[…]
The US also wants to control more of its own commercial shipping. America today has 185 ocean-going commercial vessels. China has 5,500. In theory, Beijing could turn off the American economy by choking off access to that shipping fleet and blockading the most important supply chains through the South China Sea. Given that it is from commercial fleets that the US military gets most of its supplies, even in wartime, it could also incapacitate any future American war effort.A key pillar of the Trump strategy will be to bring together the commercial and military sides of shipbuilding. “This new office aims to reform procurement, boost demand and remove barriers to US shipbuilders’ competitiveness — giving them the confidence to invest in the industry’s long-term future,” says Ian Bennitt, special assistant to the president and senior director for maritime and industrial capacity at the National Security Council.
This is a big deal. It is very much the industrial strategy that put the Chinese on top in this domain and so many other industries, and it also represents a radical departure from the Reagan approach of decoupling the two areas, as part of a larger decrease in public subsidy of industry.
By contrast, many people within the Trump administration — from national security adviser Mike Waltz to secretary of state Marco Rubio, to White House economic adviser Peter Navarro and USTR Jamieson Greer — are pushing ships as the new chips, to paraphrase former Biden security adviser Jake Sullivan, who praised the Trump plan.
A leaked draft of the executive order shows the administration is planning to use a variety of carrots and sticks, from port fees on Chinese vessels, to a Maritime Security Trust fund (utilising tax credits, grants and loans for building and workforce training) to trade sanctions to bolster the industry. That will inevitably require working with allies such as South Korea (Hanwha has bought the Philadelphia shipyard), Japan, Finland, Canada and others.
Can Trump stay the course here? He’s already told the Canadians he won’t let them use US icebreakers until they become the 51st state of the union, though sources tell me that the ICE Pact work with Canada and Finland is continuing, unaffected by trade issues.
America’s maritime capacity has atrophied to such an extent that alliances will be crucial to rebuilding it. This Great Game can’t be played alone.
Why ships are the new chips [archive.ph/FT]
What we are currently living through is nothing less than an erasure of the building blocks of our republic – a distortion of what it means to be American [Laurence H Tribe in the Guardian the other day]
…when america gets a cold
Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study [Guardian]
…& when humanity makes itself sick
Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report [Guardian]
…& I’m not out here trying to make out like I’m bill hicks or some shit
…but
…see how all that bullshit is cratering what used to be a happy economy?
…&…you see how the boring bastards who crunch the big numbers & don’t stint on the homework say…ummm
Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds [Guardian]
…well…there’s…ways this could go
Trump wants a Nobel peace prize. Here’s how he can earn one [Guardian]
…but
Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it [Guardian]
…I dunno
Unhoused Seattle man runs for mayor from a tent: ‘It’s a humanitarian crisis’ [Guardian]
…you could listen to an hour & change of ezra klein musing about…say
What Is DOGE’s Real Goal? [NYT]
…or skim a quick read about the everything-everywhere-all-at-once
Trump Has Broken the West in Two [NYT/archive.ph]
…I don’t claim to have the answers…& I don’t want to blow my own horn…but…if everyone knew what blusterfuckery was…& we just said “you can do that but you should know ain’t nobody buying it so it won’t mean shit when it comes to anything of consequence”…I dunno…you can maybe think of a suitable example of what that might look or sound like
…seriously, though…when people who literally study the patterns rising tides of fascism have made & feel like their mood music is saying it’s time to move to canada…y’all want to get that looked at
When the government becomes a health misinformation superspreader [WaPo/archive.ph]
…by a real doctor
…because when this is about the land of the free & the home of the brave?
How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border [Guardian]
…well…if you ever wanted a good way to explain how those brits that thought brexit would be all their christmases at once feel about what they found out about fucking around…to an american audience
…that would do a pretty decent job, I’d imagine?
…&…I don’t want to try what I imagine is already some taxed patience…but…while we’re having fun with it
…can we spare a thought for the part where we’re used to hyperbolic discourse
…the damning parts don’t need exaggerating
…the fundamentals do not require certificates from institutes of higher learning
…this ain’t neal stephenson’s snow-crashed franchise future…or your grandma’s
…some people make t-shirts…some people wear hats
…maybe in the last couple of days you’ve thought of more than 5
…one of them…maybe…could be…when you see the mack truck with the shot brakes heading for them…how do you get the “I’m walking, here…” guy to help you help him not get turned into the sort of roadkill RFKjr would slow down to think about finding freezer space for?
…asking for…some friends?
…speaking of which…you got this much going for you…tomorrow is friday…so this is the stretch that feels like getting a day off from these showing up like the one-two punch…&…I will see about there being some tunes to take the edge off?
…I say tunes…it might be mostly poetry in that one?
Commenting prior to reading, but [Guardian]
If you’re the best friend we have ever had, why are you STARTING THIS TRADE WAR with both of us to the point that we ABSOLUTELY MUST WORK TOETHER to fight against you. You fucking gaslighting fuckwit!
Anyone who doesn’t see this for what it is by now can…talk about it, I suppose.
Is this fucking 4D chess playing genius POTUS of the greatest fucking experiment even aware that the EU isn’t A fucking country?
Can someone tell him?
…the world keeps telling him stuff…& his response is stuff like the gulf of america & gimme-greenland & we’ll call canada a really-big state
…the man belongs in a mental institution…& the people who are still running the necessary interference to keep him where he is & pull the shit they are behind that part?
His brain stopped receiving new information in, I’d estimate, around 1988 or ’89, so we can tell him but he’s still not gonna know what “EU” means, even if we Memento-tattoo him up. Which we should do just for fun anyway.
…I’ll grant you it involves a fair bit of taking it on the chin while keeping that upper lip stiff & trying not to lose ships to loose lips…but the britain that had an empire was no slouch when it came to winning over the despots in all manner of climes
…if I had a say in that sort of thing…mandelson might not have been my pick of a cat to throw among those DC pigeons…feels like we might be better throwing a fox in there on the assumption they’re all chickens
…& the purpose of the royal family is to be so pampered they don’t let on they know they’re abasing themselves in a tortured parody of some de facto national interests…even if all it’s doing is slowing down something epochal like the US dipping out of NATO…or trying to run the high seas like a pay-to-play pirate fiefdom…or whatever batshittery they froth up in their next seizure
…so…might seem lacking in the full-throated department next to…say…the french…but…if cards go on tables & chips turn out to be down…the special relationship might be some sketchy FWB shit these days…but the commonwealth is like actually being married into the family
…& afaik…the gary oldman component of those intelligence agencies making a bit of a hallmark of looking like they’d be a lot less trouble than they can be when they get the hump with you
…in the movies it’s mostly a bad thing & our protagonist is striving to beat the odds & prevail against it…but that first draft of history the present is always writing…a lot of the people in that writers’ room do a lot of talking off the record…& it’s not like I can point you to a livestream or anything…but I’m pretty confident there’s some people who generally look like they wouldn’t blink if aliens actually invaded from another galaxy that are having to put out the flames on the side of their head several times a day…& wrap a wet towel around their head when they try to sleep?
well…at least now I know about and might eventually watch Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy. So that makes me feel better.
I certainly hope King Charles’ buttering Trump whilst donning Canadian gear is a keep-your-friends-close-but-your-enemies-closer thing.
…don’t sleep on slow horses, either
Not to extend your “the U.S. gets a cold…” analogy earlier, but a post-Brexit Britain kinda catches influ-vid-monia if the trans-Atlantic special relationship suddenly gets frosty or worse, both on the national defence (that one’s for you) front and even more so economically. But there truly are no shared interests in Trump’s America.
…yup…only yesterday the labour lady made the traditional statement in response to the “office for budget responsibility”…which…imagine if that was a thing that meant you didn’t need a DOGE…but anyway she was on the back foot trying to argue the things they’re going to do not-because-they-want-to were going okay if you took a longer view
…& she got up this morning to the latest tariff hammer making her out to be a nail
…it’s a helluva ride for all of us in this shitty boat we all appear to be stuck in together while we actively try to sink it?
For real, it’s an already-leaky canoe and Trump is trying to explain that if he saws more of the bottom off, it’ll go faster.
He’s crying because he thought he’d already have won this trade war by now thanks to quisling Premiers Scott Moe and Danielle Smith trying to make separate peaces. I suspect he and Peter Navarro believed that because those two fucking quislings would happily fold that the rest of us would in order to become the 51st State.
Instead mean ole Canada keeps punching him and his moron supporters.
Speaking of quisling smith, instead of working on the tariff issue in her texas-light province, she is in the us to meet with ben fucking shapiro and her excuse is, “we need to appease trump.”
I don’t agree 100%, but I’m nowhere near an expert and Icy Mike is a former police officer and FTO. My thinking is a longer gun could be a little unwieldy in a home defense situation, e.g., trying to turn around in a hallway. My biggest consideration would be overpenetration, i.e., where does the round end up if you miss? An officer responding to a situation at a department store actually killed someone in a dressing room with an errant round from an AR-type weapon a while back.
The comments on the video are worth perusing. Someone mentioned a .20-gauge shotgun with a pistol grip. I think you’d be fine with pretty much any handgun if you take the time to get and stay competent with it.
This doesn’t seem to be going away, despite the MSM basically calling it a “blunder.”
Signalgate scrambles MAGA’s messaging machine
Good old MAGA WaPo.
Trump defends national security adviser Waltz in Signal group chat blunder
This is fucking terrifying. That poor woman. And again, WaPo downplays it as “whisks” instead of “abducts.”
Masked agents whisk away Tufts student from sidewalk, video shows
Evan Hurst gets it right…
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-immigration-nazis-kidnap-another
Ope! Shocking that a fucking clown with a Signal chat has a public Venmo contacts list?
https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/
…I don’t know how they’d break voter-intention-wise…but you know the gag elon likes about being tech support…while the big balls asshat favors a claim involving plumbing…I can’t speak for plumbers…but I’ve chatted to enough people who do tech support when that isn’t what they’re doing to be pretty sure those exact people are looking at the awesome power of a fully operational tech bro…&…having a long, drawn-out feels-like-living-in-bullet-time “my 5yr old could do better…” moment about all this
…if you wonder who anonymous is…maybe they’re just next door to big balls’ dataleak.fun clients back in that youth he’s still mis-spending…on everyone’s dime…but maybe they’re a bunch of pissed off corporate sysadmins with the keys to the fucking kingdom who’ve hit their network moment & are fixing to start yelling some shit out of windows-boxes all over the damn shop
…I don’t rightly know
…but…I can’t say as I’d blame them if they’re coming to the conclusion those travelling academics were in one of those bluesky thingummies up there somewhere?
…sometimes I wonder if you could do a geek version of that bit where cyrus gives the speech…before it goes like bill says &
wethey killthose peoplethat guy…& maybe surprise more people than edward snowden…again…lotta excellent reasons I’m not in the running for making any of those sorts of calls…but…the thought does keep cropping up…can’t help that part?
Honestly, I thought this type of amateur shit ended back in the 90s. This is akin to the people who were astonished that their employers could read their emails and review their web logs. I mean, okay, the Internet had really just become a thing back then, but now? These dipshits are still hitting “reply all” on emails or forwarding messages from their mistresses to their mothers-in-law. Do you not know a 16-year-old who could teach you basic Internet?
IKR? I mean, Trump has Barron, who is such a genius that he knows how to turn on a laptop.
Mike Waltz’s mom packs his lunch and drives him to and from work every day.
…so…that reminds me…it’s more of a phrase than a word but a friend suggested I add “top of their lame” to this fledgling collection of mots justes I’m after starting
…& I meant to mention that
a peak or endless lame ascent?
His mom still does his laundry, too, I’m sure.
Because those big mean CIA guys keep making fun of his James Bond Jr Lunch Box
As an aside, Wired is emerging as a premier news source out of the few remaining that aren’t licking orange ass.
I am a subscriber. I get the 5$/year deal every year. Right now I think it is on for 10$.
Ooh thanks! I think I should subscribe.
Here’s a sixth for the above 5 questions story, why does Pete Whiskeyleaks have a Russian email address?
I’d laugh if Putin was on his Venmo contacts.
Oblg
Tell me again how Kennedy was such a national security risk that the CIA had to off him. /s
Ships aren’t chips, Donald. Is he stuck in WW2 confusing Liberty Ships with NVIDA CPU modules?
Wait, RFK jr is not giving me solid advice? I am shocked!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/chugging-cod-liver-oil-actually-making
…I’m a fan of writing letters…including the sternly-worded sort…but
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/signal-investigation-bipartisan-letter
…all that benghazi & hunter biden’s cloned laptop drive stuff really gave a distinct impression that congress could do a lot on its own even without writing itself a letter…if it wanted to investigate something…or tell some folks to rather than ask
…guess I’ll be needing that civics refresher again, huh?
@manchucandidate
another quisiling ready to kiss the ring.
“It’s good to be aligned with Trump and Musk because the tariffs are a result of their issue with the liberals.”
ummm…THAT’S BECAUSE THE LEADERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY ARE PART OF THIS GLOBAL TAKEOVER YOU FUCKING IDIOT…some of these idiot Con MPs and cough michelle ferreri cough members of parliament in the Con party’s fucking shadow cabinet are fucking literally too fucking stupid to understand what the fuck is going on because they’re too busy not knowing how fucking stupid they are!
GODDAMNIT IT!