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The Pentagon’s general counsel “refused to provide a written justification for the strikes”

Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks The Pentagon is planning to require thousands of uniformed and civilian officials to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to random polygraph testing.

immediately leaks, ofc

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“During a recent response exercise … officials spent the bulk of the time figuring out how many spending memos would be needed in the immediate aftermath of a major Atlantic hurricane.” The estimate: at least 80.

FEMA Is Paralyzed. Disaster-Torn Communities Are Paying the Price. St. Louis’s tornado was months ago, but it’s still waiting for hundreds of millions in federal recovery funds to arrive. It’s part of Trump’s plan to shift responsibility to the states and shrink the ...

St. Louis is a test case for Trump's policy of shifting disaster relief to the states. But months after a tornado struck, the city is still waiting for $700 million in federal recovery funds, while FEMA workers are assigned to ICE. (gift link)
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Exclusive | Pentagon Pushes to Double Missile Production for Potential China Conflict U.S. military leaders are urging defense contractors to increase assembly of 12 critical weapons.

“Companies don’t build these things on spec” — the Pentagon's call to surge missile production is bumping into funding, supply-chain constraints
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Inside you there are two wolves.

There is the Anti-Monarchy Wolf and the Irish Nationalist Wolf. Normally they get along fine but someone brought up Oliver Cromwell and oh boy are they fighting now.

Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system | CNN A Secret Service unit set out to unmask the layers of burner phones, changing phone numbers and SIM cards that were swatting American officials. It ended with the largest seizure of SIM servers and ca...

This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service. The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises

Exclusive | U.S. Plans $6 Billion in New Arms Sales to Israel The Trump administration is seeking congressional approval for the sales, moving forward despite Israel’s recent missile strike on Hamas in Qatar.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is seeking congressional approval to sell nearly $6 billion in weapons to Israel, people familiar with the request said.

The remarks were: “the Maga Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows such incidents are increasingly common.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that toxic fume leaks on airplanes are becoming more frequent and not much is being done about it.

Boeing says it plans to hire replacements for the local assembly lines, which work on fighter jets and munitions.

Boeing’s St. Louis-area machinists will keep striking after again rejecting a contract their negotiators had endorsed. “Our members will always have the final say in their futures,” union rep Tom Boelling says.

The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.

I don’t care what Bill Maher thinks about literally anything, whether I agree with it or not, because it has been decades since he did anything except get attention for saying uninteresting things. People go after Kardashians and so on for “being famous for being famous.” Maher is the same.

Trump’s ‘Law and Order’ Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid Nearly half of the arrests under the security crackdown have been of people in the country illegally.

ICE has parked outside daycares and churches. Nannies and children watched as ICE raided a business across from the Mount Pleasant library during story time. At Shrine of the Sacred Heart, an usher was arrested on his way to services. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

let your haters become taters in the chip bag of success

What in the world

The target called the police saying that masked men had tried to pull him over, broke his car window and shot at him. He said he didn’t know who they were and asked for police assistance.

DC says the attempted takeover of the MPD is both illegal and creating "havoc" for officers trying to determine who is in charge of the department. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

U.S. Trading Partners Race to Secure Exemptions From Trump’s Tariffs The diplomatic efforts show months of trade talks are far from over despite agreements trumpeted by the White House.

“I feel sorry for them,” Cambodia’s deputy PM said of the U.S. negotiating team. “There are so many countries to talk to.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Do not talk about the $25 billion pot of money you all are here to compete for

Business Meeting - Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs

From Senate committee debate on bill to ban stock trading by officeholders.

"This is self-flagellation." - Ron Johnson (R., Wisc.)

"In the audience, how many of you don't want to make money? Anybody want to be poor? I don't." - Rick Scott (R. Fla.)

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New entries in @Starlink's GeoIP file for #India appear the day after the country's space regulator granted a license to launch operations in India.

This was the final regulatory hurdle for the satellite provider to enter the massive South Asian market.

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China National Space Administration recruitment campaign launching in 3, 2 …

He Thought an Employee Stole Crypto. The FBI Says It Was a North Korean Scammer. An army of North Korean workers have taken tech jobs at companies around the world, gaining funds for the regime through paychecks, theft and extortion.

We have been hearing for years now about North Korean IT workers getting jobs at US companies. The DoJ indicted a number of these workers today, and here’s one story explaining how it happens.

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one of the huge problems society will need to grapple with as these get better is not just that a lot of people will believe fake videos, or generate fake videos to validate false beliefs, but also that by-default a lot of people will assume even real videos that are uncomfortable to face are faked

#Iran is back online as of 05:00 UTC (8:30am local).

Iran Telecom Minister:
With conditions returning to normal, the state of communication access has reverted to its previous state.
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The Path to Record Deficits A generation ago, the federal budget was briefly in surplus. Now, it appears headed for a record stretch of peacetime deficits. What happened?

The U.S.’s publicly held debt is nearing 100% of gross domestic product and is projected to surpass the post-World War II record of 106% in a few years. Here’s what happened.

Only two years … not bad