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Still absolutely determined to “do his job” - and effectively cut off any true accountability, meaningful change, and undermine momentum. These people don’t understand that (a) the fundamental rules have changed, and (b) both the people and the planet are running out of time.

Schumer making statements trying to stave off demands for him to hand the reins to someone else.

Illegally stealing water from aquifers, illegally discharging waste, increase pollution, hasten climate change, raising the temperature in the surrounding countryside by several degrees, corrupting local and state politics, not paying taxes, literally stealing every piece of knowledge, art and literature ever made by the entirety of mankind, all so that they can get rid of jobs, hallucinate answers and enable technofascist billionaires.

Or you can listen to Bernie himself.

The lack of punishment is ridiculous.

The ability to be elected to office even with felony convictions is a safeguard. If you were barred from office if you had a felony, then this government would just keep charging everyone it hated with felonies, hoping either for a conviction, the person to go bankrupt and give up, or create enough smoke that the potential constituents don’t vote for them.

I mean, you know Ken Paxton would’ve had Talarico and O’Rourke up on charges, and enough Texans are Fox addicts that they’d have either eventually gotten a conviction for something or at least discouraged people from voting from them. And you know Trump would be relentlessly going after AOC, Omar, Sanders, Mamdani, etc.

So, like, here I am, on my phone, playing games and browsing the internet. Sometimes my connection is a little slow, but that’s just the nature of things because sometimes it just takes a tiny bit longer to get a response and sometimes my phone just runs a little slow.

What I don’t know is that my phone is infected with malware. And that malware lets other people access whatever internet I have access to; and that whatever those other people are doing looks like it’s coming from my IP address and my device. I am the unwitting exit node for an unscrupulous VPN service (or driving similar).

Someone working in the White House has an infected phone and doesn’t know it. They are at the White House most days, work late afternoon to around midnight.

If the person in charge of the botnet knew the phone of a White House worked was compromised, they could use that access to appear as a legitimate user and bypass security protocols, have accounts and passwords compromised, and have their data scraped and stolen.

I would assume most normal people working in the White House have their phones regularly checked for malware, or use special phones for government work. However, higher ups in the Trump White House have routinely violated and ignored security protocols; they could abuse their power to use their own personal phones and to ignore security checks.

Given that the times the node was used are so consistent, I think it’s unlikely that there are two infected phones involved.

Given that this happened on most days in October, it’s unlikely to be Trump or anyone who regularly travels with him, because he spends a lot of time not at the White House. There was no exit node activity on two Thursdays, one Friday and one Monday; activity was recorded every other day in October. Meaning this isn’t someone who comes into the office M-F with weekends off; days off seem to be somewhat rare for this person, and don’t occur on normal weekends. I have no idea who the person is, but security should probably make more of an effort to re-secure all phones permitted on the premises.

While true, Amazon makes most of their money these days from AWS.

The victory marks a major political shift for the three-member Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state’s massive oil and gas industry, overseeing everything from pipeline safety to natural gas rates. […] Despite his victory, Republicans will retain a 2-1 majority on the commission, meaning Rosenthal will face limits on his ability to implement his priorities without support from his Republican colleagues.

It’s his safe space.

No, asshole, we want generational change. GTFOH.

Right now, the Democrats are leading for the Senate seat in Mississippi. Admittedly, it’s incredibly tight, but simply the fact that they’re competitive in Mississippi is absolutely mind-boggling.

Convenient how these past-minute changes only affect a heavily Democratic area, and gives plenty of room to allege “irregularities” when poll workers are directed to a place they’re not familiar with that was set up at the last minute. Not to mention the confusion amongst everyone who’s going to show up at the wrong place and have voting take significantly more time than they anticipated.

Iirc, the same fungus that decimated the Big Mike plantations mutated into the one that’s taking out the Cavendish. (Big Mike is still out there, btw, but only in limited areas that didn’t get infected with the blight, and in limited numbers. You know how in all the old movies, people slipped on banana peels? Those were Big Mike; supposedly the peels actually were a hazard, though perhaps not to the extent Bugs Bunny might imply.)

Speculation is icing.

Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.

Seriously, do NOT listen to the ATC recording. You will regret it.

Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.

Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.

Seriously, do NOT listen to the ATC recording. You will regret it.

Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.

Behind closed doors, very little of this went over well with the state’s other Republican Party bigwigs, many of whom were furious at Ramaswamy for doing something that could imperil the elections of others on the Ohio GOP ticket

Yeah, they didn’t care about the ad, just that it could drag them down with him.

Funny how there weren’t any systemic supply issues until someone decided to buy up all the RAM …

I mean, what else can they do but keep on? They’ve lost a lot of the American public, but if they lose the American Congress, that’ll really start to hurt.

There were reports a year or so ago, of Musk acting as a message carrier between Trump and Putin.