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TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar...

I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat?

ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details)
smh - Secret Message Hahahaha
tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis
idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat)
gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

Not the first story i hear about people being asked to show a passport or permanent residence card while traveling domestically in the US.

More details here: www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...

This is quite comforting

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Mom Says She Heard a Stranger Talking to Her Child Through Their WiFi Baby Monitor–Now She’s Warning Other Parents After a parent noticed a stranger speaking to their child through a WiFi baby monitor, experts share what may have led to this and how parents can stay safe.

“Parents should check reviews of the devices they buy, both within the site they're buying it on as well as separate from that site,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told Parents magazine. Also, stick with recognized brands that have good product security histories.

This Adtech Company is Powering Surveillance of U.S. Military Personnel In a letter to a US senator, a Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members from a Lithuanian company, revealing the global nature of commercial online ad surveilla...

A Lithuanian company provided data on US military personnel in Germany to a databroker in Florida, which could then theoretically sell that data to essentially anyone. The global nature of commercial online ad surveillance should concern everyone.

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Families and doctors sue over Trump's order to halt funding for gender-affirming care President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge.

The administration is attempting to halt federal support for gender-affirming healthcare for young people.
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DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems Associates of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fanned out across the federal government in recent days, alarming some career employees.

Thanks to Musk and DOGE, people are at risk of losing their healthcare because of sweeping attacks on Medicare and Medicaid data and payment systems.
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Trump’s Funding ‘Pause’ Throws States, Health Industry Into Chaos - KFF Health News A sweeping Trump administration order threw the nation’s health system into disarray Tuesday, as states and the health industry tried to make sense of what looked like a freeze on federal Medicaid fun...

Funding delays also caused issues with access to healthcare portals. Such outages can delay people from obtaining life-saving medications and healthcare, and even cause deaths.
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Services for disabled Americans, trans youth and refugees feel the squeeze from Trump’s early actions | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s bid to remake the federal government is already affecting some vulnerable populations in the United States, according to nonprofits and health care providers who are grappling...

Federal funding disruptions are causing staffing issues at independent living centers, which help seniors and disabled people remain in their homes instead of institutions. Funding delays are also threatening Head Start programs, which support low-income families.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

Trump’s Already Gone Back on His Promise To Leave Abortion to States - KFF Health News On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump said the power to make abortion policies “has been returned to the states.” In his first two weeks in office, he’s already gone further to restrict aborti...

The Trump administration has gone further in restricting abortion than any president since Roe was decided in 1973, which will endanger abortion-seekers and others trying to access reproductive healthcare.
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The Trump admin intends to undermine access to health care and destroy social safety net programs through budget cuts, funding disruptions, and increased eligibility requirements. Here's a rundown, with the help of @upturn.org:

Trump unlawfully fired leaders of the EEOC, NLRB, PCLOB, and CFPB — independent agencies whose work is essential to the enforcement of civil rights laws.

Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

President Trump directed federal agencies to stop interpreting civil rights laws as protecting against gender-based discrimination. The president also ordered agencies to ignore recent Supreme Court precedent that sex discrimination includes gender discrimination.
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Treasury Secretary Bessent, tapped to run CFPB, orders staff to halt work The staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was instructed by email to cease much of its work. Bessent, a wealthy Wall Street investor, replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday.

The new acting head of the CFPB told staff to halt their consumer protection work, which has shielded consumers from price gouging, predatory lending, and the weaponization of medical debt in credit decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...

Justice Department issues freeze for civil rights division The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.

The DOJ has ordered its civil rights division to stop working while also soliciting proposals for criminal and civil investigations into companies that seek to voluntarily diversify their workforces.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Why LBJ signed executive order 11246 that Trump rescinded When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act shortly.

Trump rescinded an Executive Order from the 1960s requiring nondiscrimination in federal contracting — a foundational legal authority requiring federal contractors, including some of America’s largest businesses, to hire diverse workforces.
www.reuters.com/world/us/why...

All the actions taken by the Trump admin are a widespread attack on civil rights protections that have been instrumental to confronting racism and other forms of exclusion in housing, hiring, and credit. Here's a rundown, with the help of @upturn.org:

Vittoria Elliott Leah Feiger Feb 7, 2025 2:47 PM A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately."
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Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures Hospitals are increasingly being forced into maintenance contracts with device manufacturers, driving up costs.

Why do medical costs continue to skyrocket in the US? Well, manufacturers are forcing hospitals into 1st repair contracts, which means a hospital's own staff are prevented from repairing devices that they had long been able to fix.

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‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan Elon Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...

So the Treasury is going on the blockchain... cool cool cool

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I don’t know when people will start realizing that the US is under authoritarian rule

Hackers Mined AT&T Breach for Data on Trump's Family, Kamala Harris Hackers behind the breach of “nearly all” of AT&T customers’ metadata searched for records associated with members of the Trump family, Kamala Harris, and Marco Rubio’s wife.

The hackers behind the massive breach of AT&T data last year hunted through the data for phone numbers and records of top officials and their families, including the Trump family (Melania and Ivanka Trump); Kamala Harris; and Marco Rubio’s wife

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

STEPS TO BE SAFER AFTER A POSSIBLE TARGETING - The Citizen Lab This page is intended ONLY for users receiving an official outreach concerning possible sophisticated commercial spyware targeting. If you did not get such an

@citizenlab.ca has some good resources on steps to take to try to secure your devices as much as possible:

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WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware Messaging app said it had ‘high confidence’ some users were targeted and ‘possibly compromised’ by Paragon Solutions spyware

Nearly 100 journalists and civil society folks were targets of Israeli spyware company #Paragon.

The targeting was a “zero-click” attack, which means targets wouldn't have had to click on any malicious links to be infected.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...