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Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.

Good god what a child

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

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Send in the national guard! That farm to table produce won’t buy itself!

This game is giving Oregon State and TCU 2008 vibes now.

Refs were definitely the mvp on that play.

How so? Genuinely asking. I feel like any time I try to read about the case it’s all been unsubstantiated rumors.

Turns out that leopards can even eat the faces of other leopards.

Christian nationalist followers of Nick Fuentes.

It’s simple. The right has decided that hypocrisy is a strength, not a moral failing.

I could see that. Fireball + gingerale is similar and is a fantastic mix.

We're not "kicking off" a race to the bottom with gerrymandering-- it's already here. Republicans have gerrymandered NC, OH, FL, KY, WV, UT and now TX. Unilateral disarmament is not a sign of strength, it's literally how we lose. You're a CA assemblymember; if anyone should see the stakes, it's you.

New Gallup poll:

A significant majority — 79% — of respondents said immigration is a "good thing" for the U.S. today. The share who said it's a "bad thing" dropped from 32% last year to 17% this year.

School teachers have to struggle to get supplies for their classrooms and pay out of their own pockets to provide basic items and tools, meanwhile ICE that is of no value to society is given $140 billion of your tax dollars to terrorize school children and communities.

The absolute irony of posting this literally an hour *after* Adam Schiff showed up at Huerta's bail hearing.

And a day after Maxine Waters was on the front lines of the protests daring the National Guard to shoot her.

And Pramila Jayapal on the front lines.

You're spreading fascist propaganda bud

If you have no cards, flip the table.

You can tell this isn’t a screenshot from his PC because the link isn’t already purple.

Why Qatar is bribing Trump On Sunday, President Trump announced that the government of Qatar would be giving the "Defense Department" a luxury 747 aircraft to replace Air Force One.

Qatar wants:
- U.S. weapons
- Military protection
- U.S. foreign policy influence in the Middle East
- Favorable trade terms and investment opportunities

Trump wants:
- bribes

So Qatar gave him a $400 million plane and a $5.5 billion golf course deal.

This isn’t complicated.

He should bake Donald Trump a birthday cake.

Donald Trump went from “I will lower costs” to “fuck you and your kids” in 100 days.

Good call. Sanderson finishes another book every time you go to the gym, so unless you skip a few days, you’ll never catch up.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter.

While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims.

Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."

Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

China's ACTUAL tariff rate on was only 7.5%

Trump's minions bungled it, used AI to claim it was 67%, and thus slapped a 34% tariff on them

China has now increased its tariff from 7.5% to 34%

Trump instantly made China's tariff 4.5x WORSE

He is an IDIOT - costing us TRILLIONS

I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Cool, so now immigrants will no longer pay taxes. Great idea, idiots.

The GOP talking point today is:

"It's going to take unconventional methods to get us out of the mess we've been in the past 4 years"

"The mess"
- booming stock markets
- unprecedented job growth
- strong GDP
- wage growth
- plateauing inflation
- strong allies & trading partners
- a sane POTUS