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Hackers strike Ivy League schools already under political pressure Hackers have struck elite US universities in recent weeks, pilfering sensitive data from donors and making off with students’ information in a string of digital heists that only add stress to schools ...

“Harvard University, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania have each disclosed breaches within the past three weeks, months after a politically motivated attacker burrowed deep into networks at New York City’s Columbia University.” 11/24/25 www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Tucker Carlson did a whole show last week debunking it. Even MAGA doesn’t believe it anymore.

If you’re looking for signals of good tech policy from the Mamdani administration look no further than his transition team including @alondra.bsky.social and @ruha9.bsky.social

My head is exploding with joy for New Yorkers with this announcement.

I'm so glad that Alondra is stepping up to this new challenge.

Pretty consistent pro-genocide politics, though

"Elon Musk’s foundation gave away $474 million in 2024, nearly all of it to entities he controls." from a story in #Bloomberg. need I say more, #philanthropy

Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Bessent's not only hiding these docs, he bizarrely claimed Treasury has no role investigating them at all. It’s a lie. It's impossible someone with his background doesn’t know about Treasury's extensive role investigating the kinds of financial crimes Epstein must have been committing.

What would those records help reveal? Where Epstein got his money. How he acquired and controlled his victims. Who he trafficked them to. What individuals and banks enabled the trafficking. Who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.

The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

Report: Trump hosted cocaine-fueled parties with underage girls Sources who attended shindigs say Republican nominee 'was getting laid like crazy' at Plaza Hotel soirees that included models as young as 15 hoping to advance their careers

THIS IS WHAT HE IS HIDING.

This is a really strong piece by @mjsdc.bsky.social on how Trump's DOJ really messed up in how they tried to finagle Texas's re-redistricting. And now that measure was put on hold by a federal district court. A mess in Texas!

😹 i mean

Trump’s Scheme to Gift the GOP Extra House Seats Just Blew Up in His Face — Slate Nov 18, 2025 | 5:24 PM The opinion, written by a Trump appointee, cites Chief Justice John Roberts right up top. Photo illustration by Slate. A federal court struck down Texas’ new gerrymander on Tues...

“Politics aside, though, the reality is that Brown is right as a matter of law: What Texas did here is essentially the one thing that even this Supreme Court says states can’t do to gain an electoral advantage. Republicans broke the law to get those five seats.” apple.news/AxstkYhmjS8S...

Proposed Nexstar-Tegna Merger Is Blatant Violation of the Law Prohibiting One Company from Too Much Control of Local Airwaves The $6.2 billion deal also would violate the FCC’s few remaining local-ownership limits in nearly 30 markets. In some, it would leave Nexstar in control of three of the top-four-ranked stations.

From @freepress.bsky.social

Howard did it with fewer words, but, yeah, that’s pretty much it. www.lawdork.com/p/court-bloc...

Obviously the Trump administration doesn't give a shit what it's legal obligations are. But this could give the Dems a way to keep making noise.

Really? How many agents will we find on that list?

ICE *and* soliciting sex from a minor? This guy just went from a Trump pardon to a Congressional medal of honor

State Department Reverses Course, Says Trans Passports Will Be Valid Until They Expire This comes after a concerning change indicating that the state department could "invalidate" transgender passports.

State Department Reverses Course, Says Trans Passports Will Be Valid Until They Expire

www.erininthemorning...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

I mean, I not sure Jim Jordan is *all* for exposing bad guys for bad things

The "neutral university" strikes again

Hey @Yale maybe you could stop "partnering" with this #inhumanity and stop making your athletes fly @Avelo www.aveloair.com/company-news...

Flight attendants on ICE charter flights say an expeditious evacuation in an emergency is unlikely because

"all adult migrants (& some minors) are shackled w/ handcuffs & leg irons attached to a chain around their waists—regardless of gender, age, disability, criminal background, or lack thereof."

This amounts to oligarchic control of the media, the same we see in illiberal states like Hungary.

www.mediaite.com Former Trump White House Lawyer Predicts DOJ’s Case Against Comey Is ‘Dead,’ Says Bondi and Halligan Could Be Disbarred

Former Trump White House Lawyer Predicts DOJ’s Case Against Comey Is ‘Dead,’ Says Bondi and Halligan Could Be Disbarred Mediaite

In my layperson's understanding of the law, calling algorithmic predictions about which posts a person might like or leave a comment on "speech" feels like a corruption of the term. Particularly because no person at any of these companies can tell you with any certainty why any individual post appeared in your feed. They can tell you what signals they took into account, and which of your past behaviors likely influenced what you're seeing. But they also constantly show people posts that they later express regret over — porn, scams, violence and so on — and profess ignorance when asked why their systems showed those posts to users. It's a funny kind of speech — one that can be traced to no individual person, and is in a language that no one fully understands.

Are there any *good* reasons to consider engagement-maximizing algorithms protected speech? I wrote about the California law that has platforms shaking www.platformer.news/california-a...

The power of metal @themountaingoats.bsky.social