Host: There are new concerns about the safety of American Social Security data. Officials are looking into a whistleblower complaint about a former DOGE worker who allegedly told several coworkers he had access to highly sensitive records, and he planned to share them with a private employer.
lol entirely lacks context
They used outdated targeting data. That’s not even an AI issue.
Is this FBI trustworthy?
Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.
Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.
Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.
And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.
Yes, this is oligarchy.
Smartmatic — the voting machine company at the heart of Trump's 2020 election lies — just accused the Trump Justice Department of vindictive and selective prosecution, saying that DOJ is now bringing a criminal case against them to further the Trump admin's baseless lies about that vote.
Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
None of them can talk coherently about strategy or goals but they are completely in sync in all their macho posturing because that is all they’re really focused on. Everything else is just whatever limply offered fiction is convenient to them at the time.
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
Our politics are fundamentally corrupt. And our economy is rigged against working people because of this corruption.
“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.”
@washingtonpost.com
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An engineer with deep experience in RO systems reviewed the desal project and found flimsy assumptions, unrealistic estimates, and no serious plan for the vast amount of pretreatment chemicals, sludge waste, and electricity demands... Politicians and businessmen oversold the H2O supply. Good luck TX
So much groundwater has been pumped from underneath Tehran that groundwater strata have crushed and compacted so much they’ll never hold water again. Rather than conserve, Corpus Christi TX is doing the same, destroying the Evangeline Aquifer at more than 8 million gallons per day. (Texas Tribune),
Corpus Christi, Texas reservoirs hit historic low of 10% combined capacity
Lake Corpus Christi and Choke Canyon Reservoir hit 10% combined capacity on Jan. 12 as the city races to develop water projects before a November 2026 emergency deadline.
#Texas #drought #water
www.kristv.com/running-dry/...
Texas is so incredibly mismanaged, it's now a race to see which area of the state becomes uninhabitable first. Space Karen's new lithium refinery is operational, but Corpus Christi was predicted to run out of water in EARLY 2027 before they ever used a drop.
“military readiness doesn’t include green solar power generation projects”
Actually energy independence is national security. Having allies is national security. Hardening our semiconductor supply chain would’ve been national security… Everything these MORONS have been doing has made us less safe.
China leapfrogged us by a combination of their own cleverness and stealing our IP. They’ve made impressive strategic investments and thanks to Trump they now have access to our most advanced chips to further develop their AI. Why sit back when a blockaid of Taiwan can set US AI companies back years
Guys, if China blockades Taiwan won’t our AI progress more or less come to a halt? US chips (like Nvidia, AMD, Apple) are not fully complete until they undergo advanced finishing in Taiwan. Taiwan’s a crucial link in our semiconductor supply chain. Do you think Republicans have prepared us for this?
When the Dems retake the House, they should force every one of those DOGE bros to testify and if there is any grounds for prosecution to do it swiftly.
Techies need to have inputs that enforce consequences on their actions.
Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.
Multiple things can be true: Trump lied, the US hit the school, and the targeting was actually for an adjacent military target (?). That would be the most generous read. But if the school was an intentional target, UCMJ must do its worst against all involved (with no corrupt Trump pardons allowed)
Some context from last year for the already precarious water infrastructure situation in Iran:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Trump’s Iran War, like everything else done by his rapacious administration, has been done in bad faith. We still need confirmation about multiple strikes on the school (Reuters says the school was adjacent to an IRGC compound), and about the desal plant. UCMJ may well categorize these as war crimes
Hegseth’s middle name is blatant disregard for the safety of innocent people
It’s so monstrous I can’t even believe it (though watching my own government excuse the execution of Americans in the street should’ve made me realize these immoral fvcks are capable of anything). How the fvck does targeting like this pass through the US military without getting stopped.
Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.
No words are enough 💔
“The alleged perpetrators were recruited and given instructions through an online messaging service. Investigators said tasks were divided among several suspects, who were often rewarded with cryptocurrency payments.”
Ah, cryptocurrency. Never met a crime it didn’t want to help facilitate.
Jeremy Banx, Private Eye
