Carey!

Share your TACO flavored recipes for family gatherings this summer.
Sometimes we share because we want to connect, and sometimes we’re petty af.
Whatcha got?

1000 measles cases.

It’s no coincidence that this has happened after DOGE cancelled $11 billion that went to state and local public health departments.

It’s no coincidence that this has happened after the CDC fired infectious disease experts.

Trump and RFK Jr. must act to stop measles now.

It has been reported that the CDC has been told to stop testing for H5N1 in livestock, poultry and human populations, and to stop releasing this information to the public. When will the US return to doing what’s right for the health and safety of our country and the world?

What’s the current status of the 2025 measles outbreak and spread rate?
What’s the current status of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in livestock, migrating birds and human populations?
When will the US return to allowing the CDC to release this information to the public and WHO?

Hope you will consider joining me next Tuesday night in Lancaster at my Town Hall Meeting. We will discuss recent county investments, as well as the impact of Trump Administration actions locally. All the information is below 👇

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...

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy.

Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.

All with an average donation of $21.

THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

Sure. Tell Grandma to just head on over to X to sign up for her benefits.

The dollar stores all going be be renamed the “Two-Fitty Store”.

The SAVE ACT just passed?
Get your fecken passports people! Anyone that has changed their name from the one on their birth certificate, and wants to vote in the USA needs to be able to do so.

Mayday: A Vision of Protest, Art, and Change < Daily Public Demonstrations Art as Resistance IMPEACH AND REMOVE

Call to action: May 1st, impeach and remove May Day protest in Washington D.C.

Camp will be setup to occupy the capitol for daily demonstrations and occupation.

linktr.ee/maydayprotest

#3E #handsoff #fiftyfiftyone #teslatakedown #opstopfascism #campmayday

Feeling the same about my NY taxes.

If almost 2% turned out on 4/5, and then we count in the number of people that couldn’t march due to individual circumstances, we probably are at 3.5%.

It’s the typical Republican mindset.

Left leaning people vote to enact and sustain governmental support systems for everyone, for fear that anyone should needlessly starve.

Right leaning people would dismantle those benefits for everyone for fear that even one person might be taking advantage.

JOIN THE 50501 MOVEMENT NEXT 50 STATE NATIONWIDE PROTEST APRIL 19TH (A WEEKEND!) 581 Visit www.Fiftyfifty.one FOR LOCATION DETAILS

Call to Action: Nationwide protests for April 19th. Events information will be announced between now and then.

#3E #FiftyFiftyOne #Handsoff

TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!!

This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we make a difference.

It only takes 3.5% of the population in a sustained resistance in order to make a difference.

#50501movement

Over 5 million people now.

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

#GVerse #MustWatch: Rep Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) @repjasmine.bsky.social has AG Pam Bondi’s number and she saves a little for Elmo too. Crockett always brings the 💥🔥💥in committee. Check this out!👇

How to leak to a journalist Planning to leak? Read these tips first.

How to leak to a journalist!

featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

This an excellent article on what we/ you have lost in the mass firings in the FDA. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

I will go one step farther and say NEVER FUCKING USE GOV PROVIDED WIFI! I would not even when Biden was in office.

Fired But Fighting

Dear CDC friends. Today was the most foolish of April Fool's days. We have not just lost jobs. With entire teams and offices being cut, we have lost vast amounts of institutional knowledge. Take the time you need to grieve. Then join your fired colleagues in the fight.

www.firedbutfighting.com

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Muskox is planning to migrate the entire SSA system using AI to a new platform…soon. They’re projecting that it should only take a few months, not the 5 YEARS the SSA experts originally predicted.
If you (US citizens) haven’t created an account and printed your benefit statement, DO IT NOW.

KRASNOV: Every American Needs to Understand This Allegations Resurface: Was Donald Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset?

Please read and share 💙🙏 it’s going viral on Substack, but hardly anyone has seen it on Bluesky :(

Anyone who thinks AI can replace agents at SSA's 800#
1) doesn't understand the complexity involved
2) is unaware of how much critical thinking is required
3) underestimates how devastating inaccurate information is to when it comes to Social Security