Emily Baker-White

A quote from an Axios story about a raccoon that got trashed at a North Carolina store that reads: "Why it matters: The intoxicated suspect was a raccoon."

Why it matters

Border Patrol’s Digital Playbook: Hack iPhones, Raid iCloud Accounts A CBP search warrant shows how it relies on data raids on iClouds when its forensics tools can't get enough information from iPhones.

🚨NEW🚨 At the southern border, officers use Cellebrite forensic devices to access iPhones of immigration crime suspects.

Except they don't always get the data CBP wants. So CBP orders Apple to provide it instead.

A CBP playbook on border surveillance.

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Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma May Have Violated SEC Rules After Another Filing Discrepancy Alt5 Sigma told regulators its accountant resigned in November, while he says he notified the company three months earlier.

Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well...

Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.

We called the auditor.

He resigned in August.

That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.

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To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder

"In other words, the researchers are suggesting that many cats have concluded that men don’t always listen, and adjusted their behavior accordingly."

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seventeen strike policy

Newsmax Set Out To Be QVC For Senior Citizens. Then Came Trump. For years, the company has sold everything from supplements to annuities to controversial health and finance advice. Will that business live on in the era of Trump?

“Newsmax Set Out To Be QVC For Senior Citizens. Then Came Trump.”

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Newsmax Set Out To Be QVC For Senior Citizens. Then Came Trump. For years, the company has sold everything from supplements to annuities to controversial health and finance advice. Will that business live on in the era of Trump?

The company, which went public in March, long relied on subsidiaries to sell its TV audience everything from supplements to annuities to controversial health and finance advice. Will that business model live on in the era of Trump?

Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From A Mystery Investor. Now That Investor Is Gone Forbes raised questions about a massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm Napster supposedly raised in January. The money is never coming, the company said Thursday.

Metaverse startup Napster earlier this year claimed to have raised a massive $3 billion round from one, unnamed investor, valuing it at $12 billion. Now it claims the money never landed and its working with law enforcement as a “victim of misconduct”.
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excellent content here

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Telling People She Wants to Run for President One source told NOTUS Greene believes she has “the national donor network to win the primary.”

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Is anyone else having trouble reproducing this? When I visit Mary’s profile I can only see date joined and verified status.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

“The swastika signified the mission allotted to us—the struggle for the victory of Aryan mankind and at the same time the triumph of the ideal of creative work which is in itself and always will be anti-Semitic.”

- Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf”

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It seems worth getting very crisp on whether the presumptive 2028 Republican nominee for POTUS agrees with his boss that members of Congress should be killed.

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

read this www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.

An editor at Suncoast Searchlight, an investigative outlet, inserted AI hallucinated quotes into stories and after reporters sent a letter to the publication’s board, the editor fired one of the reporters.

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I am just confused

what

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

H Mart in Elkins Park, if you’re out that way!

Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S. Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

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The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On AI Hacking From Startup Twenty The U.S. government has been contracting stealth startup Twenty, which is working on AI agents and automated hacking of foreign targets at massive scale.

🚨SCOOP 🚨The Pentagon is spending millions on a secretive startup that’s making hacking AI to help carry out operations on hundreds of targets at once.

In-q-tel, the VC org founded by the CIA, is a backer of the startup, called Twenty.

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Learned about this via a tip.

See something, say something ain't just for the feds.

Srsly, tips always appreciated!

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gif choice here is on point

Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set Could Violate Federal Law A site affiliated with Lee Greenwood sells merchandise with the seal—such as a $20 beer pong set with “Presidential themed balls”—and pays licensing fees to a Trump LLC.

New: A site licensing Trump's name is selling merch with the presidential seal — including a $20 beer-pong set with “Presidential themed balls.”

Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.

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Sorry but the scandal here is very clearly the government denying other people the toilet paper they need

U.S. Seeks Man Who Appeared at Alina Habba’s Office With Baseball Bat

I had to read 3 grafs into this story before realizing they meant a baseball bat and not a furry little flying squirrel-style guy

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X’s Grok Claims Trump Won the 2020 Election NewsGuard identified three instances of Grok confidently — and falsely — stating that Donald Trump won the 2020 election

NewsGuard has identified three instances of X’s AI chatbot Grok confidently — and falsely — stating that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

Read the full report in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/xs-grok-cl...

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the Condé United and NewsGuild of New York union members who were retaliated against for questioning the closure of Teen Vogue. Four Condé Nast staffers were fired and additional union members appear to have been suspended without pay following their participation in a federally protected activity — gathering at their workplace to inquire about the Teen Vogue layoffs. When institutions that hire journalists infringe on their employee’s right to collective action it calls into question those institutions’ commitment to inquiry and journalistic integrity. It also threatens all unionized journalists and their ability to speak truth to power. SAG-AFTRA reminds Condé Nast that collective action is a federally protected right. We join in solidarity with journalists as well as our union siblings in demanding the terminated employees be reinstated.

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the Condé United and NewsGuild of New York union members who were retaliated against for questioning the closure of Teen Vogue.

NY AG Letitia James stumps for fired Condé Nast workers, telling the company 'I'll see you in court' NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR.

NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR.

Not body- or nerdshaming anybody, but saying this is copping to having never played sports.