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Minimalist vertical memorial poster with light gray background. Centered text reads: “Ballots beat bullets. Authoritarians hated that USAID helped prove it.” Below is “USAID” with “US” in dark blue and “AID” in red. Under it: “1961 to 2025.” At the bottom: “The first November 3 without you.”

*realizing I need to explain Kerberos to Printer Server operators to get them to fix this problem*

This is what it feels like moving into your first job as InfoSec

How CR’s Testing Team is Boosting Security—One Smart Product at a Time - Innovation at Consumer Reports Take a look inside CR’s testing lab, where our engineers are strengthening the security of connected devices and boosting consumer trust

An inside look at Consumer Reports’s cybersecurity and privacy testing lab, where its experts work to keep consumers safe from digital harms. Read more here: innovation.consumerreports.org/how-crs-test...

A top Zimbabwe malaria research center killed by USAID closure, resurrected by UMC A malaria research center in Mutare, Zimbabwe helps test insecticide resistance. The critical work almost ended with USAID closure.

Another example of Rubio’s 🤮 leadership.

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Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes “Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.

"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"

taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/

Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia

I wrote about all this and how Wikipedia is getting squeezed by the AI industry generally if you’re interested www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...

Official visits are even more excessive and absurd than you thought How do you spend $1 million in a month? Host recruits at your school.

Official visits are schools' best chance to impress recruits. They go even more all out than you think.

We're talking water parks, go-karts, private islands, and checks at steakhouses that will make your eyes pop!

Read it all here in this week's free FOIAball!

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Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You. The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...

NEW: The FDA Is Hiding the Names of Drugs Made in Contaminated Factories

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social found some tents nobody will get mad at you for destroying

In initiating this contact, Ms. Halligan—the lead prosecutor on this case as of the date of this filing—commented on the credibility and general strength of the evidence presented to the grand jury. She also commented, more generally, on the purported strength of the case she was bringing, complained about the New York Times’ coverage of a certain witness’s grand jury testimony, and stated the article did not convey a “full representation” of what took place before the grand jury. These extrajudicial statements and prejudicial disclosures by any prosecutor, let alone one purporting to be the U.S. Attorney, run afoul of and violate the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Code of Federal Regulations, this Court’s Local Rules, various rules of ethical and professional responsibility, and DOJ’s Justice Manual.

Finally, someone (Tish James atty Abbe Lowell) is making a stink about Lindsey Halligan stalking @annabower.bsky.social.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

in a just world this dapper man will not only crack the louvre heist case but also reveal he was the true mastermind behind the louvre heist

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.

Clark Construction Group are the contractors with AECOM as engineer and McCrery Architects as designer. They're delusional if they think they'll get paid for the work. Trump's well known for not paying. I still can't get my head around the fact they demolished without submitting plans.

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

What to know about James McCrery, Trump’s White House architect And what Peter Eisenman, his former mentor, thinks of his ballroom plan

www.punchlistmag.com/p/what-to-kn...

Updating my LEGO White House

ADP data wasn't well understood.

Their partnership with the Fed helped them and others understand their data & how it relates to free official estimates of important economic variables.

The pause in official stats raised their data's market value tremendously, no longer giving it away.

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

We’ve updated our story with an additional comment provided by the United States Justice Department.

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

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The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)