Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸

More and more I think the problem is specifically elites who are financing Republican radicalization. GOP voters would vote for a moderate conservative candidate. Its elites who are pied pipering them down this road because things work perfectly fine for them other competitive authoritarian states.

Everyone should read this - by the former chief of staff for ICE

Trying to talk other people into violating their professional oaths is, frankly, a violation of that oath. You obviously don’t respect something if you want other people to reject it and you’re encouraging them to consider that.

Is our Congress out in order to afford the royal family time to get ahead of the news?

*The "Post-Naive Internet." Post-Naive according to them, anyhow

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So this story is super duper interesting for a whole ton of reasons, but one big one is its a very rare glimpse into the private valuation of high-end exploits held by major defense contractors

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Its the Streisand Effect but for legal non-profits that Trump really doesn’t want you to donate money to.

@citizensforethics.org

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BREAKING NEWS: Charges dropped!!!

YouTube video by BSidesAugusta Greg Conti & Tom Cross - Dark Capabilities: When Tech Companies Become Threat Actors

“Hack back” is usually presented in stark terms of "defense is OK, offense is not OK." In our #BSides Augusta talk we employ the military concept of Effects Based Operations (EBO) to explore the spectrum of outcomes companies can impose, which has many shades of grey.

youtu.be/mGbSOFozUWk

This person has been in prison for two months for criticizing Republicans after the Kirk murder.

Treasonous

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Republican pols have figured out that if you file a lawsuit, it will go on for a long time, and you can use its existence to convince many people that there must be *some* truth to the underlying allegation, and this is a useful manipulation strategy.

They aren’t the only ones who understand this.

It is extremely on brand for trump to consider a 92 year old nobel laureate with a history of calling out dictators a mortal threat

Being too smart is a vulnerability when your job is to understand the perspective of the common man.

Something that Dems don’t understand is that the public perception of what Democrats represent is driven more by online leftist radicals, and right wing criticism of them, than the actual party’s positions. Only nerds can separate online activism from the actual party, and message discipline is nil.

Hrm, a lot of people think Trump benefited from anti-incumbent bias driven by inflation, and a lot of people voted for Trump because they thought an immigration crackdown would make it easier for them to get a job. Its not all disinformation. People care about economic issues.

Validation for those of us on the P side of the Meyers Briggs assessment:

We just filed our PI brief in this one detailing how these stops are illegal, in part, because DHS won’t accept that REAL IDs are real.

ICE rejected one woman’s ID and put her in shackles because “the Biden Administration made a lot of mistakes.”

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Said unironically: “Remove Red Tape That Slows Regulatory Implementation”

"Mapped: Government Debt to GDP by Country in 2025" www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-gover...

I dont have a screenshot but he announced a new tariff explicitly connected with a TV commercial. His authority to impose tarrifs is predicated on the existence of an economic “emergency.” They’ll have a hard time reconciling that.

Prediction: Tonight’s Truth Social post about Canada will be the thing that SCOTUS cannot overlook in ruling against Trump on Tarrifs.

Indigenous nations plan customs-free trade corridor across Canada-US border - Prince Albert Daily Herald Sonal GuptaLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterCanada's National Observer Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive cen...

Indigenous nations plan customs-free trade corridor across Canada-US border #Canada #USA

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This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

Not sure that criteria (4) is relevant here.

The risks of letting Trump become the military paymaster Trump will demand their loyalty in return

New, from me: Trump is prioritizing paying the armed forces over other federal employees during a shutdown. He is trying to win over the rank and file even as he tells military leaders to target “the enemy within.” 🧵
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