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Arizona, December 2025, Charlie Kirk Memorial tribute more specifically inappropriately set up was an ice recruitment station with DHS present

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OT:

Every American's personal data is at risk of fraud after DOGE's alleged mismanagement, Social Security's former chief data officer tells MarketWatch.

n a reversal, the Trump administration admitted in a Jan. 16 court filing that DOGE shared Social Security data on an unauthorized private service called Cloudflare (NET). The filing also detailed that DOGE employees tried to hand over sensitive personal records to an unnamed advocacy group seeking to "overturn election results" and sent confidential information on about 1,000 Americans to Elon Musk's workers.

"Everyone thinks this is just another data breach. This is not just another data breach," Borges told MarketWatch. "If this data has been absconded or downloaded, you could perpetuate fraud against every single government system in existence much more easily than at any time in our history."

The information at risk includes the names of applicants, place and date of birth, sex, citizenship, race and ethnicity, parents' names and their Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses and other personal information.

"This is a huge counterintelligence and intelligence-gathering opportunity. And it's a generational problem because the data Social Security keeps can't be changed - the place of your birth, your mother's maiden name. This is immutable personal information that will be compromised for children for the rest of their lives," Borges said.

-- https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260204164/the-social-security-data-breach-is-a-national-security-disaster-that-could-hurt-americans-for-the-rest-of-their-lives-whistleblower

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I am evolving (devolving?) back to my original theory of the case of the apparently mind-blowing stupidity of Trump and all his toadies that they are playing 4th dimensional chess with us people here on planet Earth 1.0, They are playacting as permanent denizens of the extreme left side of the Bell Curve intelligence spectrum, thereby seeking our sympathy and not our approbation. If you get my drift.

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This is fine.

Fuck Trump.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

𝗗𝗢𝗝 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘇𝘇𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲, 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 — The disgraced financier regularly courted tech industry figures not just for their prestige but also for access to promising companies.

https://archive.ph/YB018 [Vichy Times]

Opalescent Riddles's avatar

I read that as "compromising companies".

Free beach's avatar

Follow the money

-Deep throat

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Epstein must have had a field day with those crypto-bros ... a dumber, more gullible group would be hard to find.

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

Yeah, the stupid popups when I expand a comment are getting on my nerves. Some dumb fuck chose to make those annoying popups happen.

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It started a couple three weeks ago. You click "expand comment" and a popup appears telling you about the comment author, while covering the comment and obscuring 50% or so of the viewing area.

Safari on my stupid iphone.

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Going to Florida next Tuesday to visit my dad and I am really looking forward to it save for not being able to drink. My dad hates drinking alone so there will be pressure but I'll be okay, nothing is worth the risk of the severe hangovers I get even with my migraine meds working great right now.

Back to the dentist tomorrow for a follow up on the biopsy sight. According to my calculations, I should get the results the Monday I travel back, so hopefully I'll be able to take the phone calls. I did some Google searches and one description of cancer associated with smoking cigarettes was "a white sore that doesn't heal," which nicely sums up what I have. I hate to spend too much time dwelling on unknown unknowns, but the surgery for this is going to be awful. I need to remember that this time I need some nitrous AND a valium for the procedure. Might take some of my dog's trazadone if I need it (not really, but maybe).

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good luck at the dentist. I'd advise staying away from Dr Google as much as possible.

Free beach's avatar

I should talk to your dogs dealer. Sometimes my back is bad.

tek's avatar

Well, one bit of good news it that this friggin' cold snap we're in down here should be over by then..

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Yeah, it's colder there than here in Central OK this week!

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𝗟𝗔𝟮𝟴 [𝗢𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀] 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗟𝗔 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀

https://ground.news/article/la28-chair-wasserman-called-on-to-resign-over-epstein-files-la-times-reports?utm_source=headline-link&utm_medium=share

Free beach's avatar

What’s traitor tulsi up to today?

Randy Bender's avatar

Republinazis treason for the same reason alligators bite--it's all that they know how to do.

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Skulking around looking like a creepy in some official building.

Free beach's avatar

Anhhh. Of course. Sealing the coup.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Remember this wanker who bet his software company on ScamCoin™? Well ... 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿’𝘀 $𝟭𝟮 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼’𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵

Shares of Strategy, Michael Saylor’s bitcoin-stockpiling company, have fallen sharply since crypto prices touched all-time highs in October

https://archive.ph/ujX7I [Bloomberg]

Also remember Donnie BFF in Él Salvador? That whole country's currency in tied to ScamCoin™

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿: 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺, 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗧𝗖 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻, 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 — https://archive.ph/U5ede [Bloomberg]

tek's avatar

𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑦, 𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑆𝑎𝑦𝑙𝑜𝑟’𝑠 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑛-𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦

Should have been named "Bad Strategy"

Randy Bender's avatar

So all those companies going one hundred percent into internet magic munnie by buying on margin mebbee made an oopsie.

Hope they all crash and burn, oh so sawwee US kleptocracy : )

Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

We will be forced to bail them out. Careful what you wish for!

paul's avatar

Best comic strip ever made imo.

Noma Larkey's avatar

'Life in Hell' enters the discussion.

Free beach's avatar

Zippy? Tom tomorrow?

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Better than Peanuts or Garfield?

paul's avatar

Yes, but I forgot about Far Side- it hits differently though.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

https://bsky.app/profile/evanhurst.substack.com/post/3me6rulhkts2l

Katie Britt's Fundie Baby Voice Just SICK About Little Liam, Bless His Heart!

Britt is total garbage, and so is this Confederate-Mommy-washing piece about her in the New York Times.

NEW NEWSLETTER, read, share, subscribe, become a paid subscriber!

https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/katie-britts-fundie-baby-voice-just

Hops: grrrr mad's avatar

Their first indy-released album, "We Are The Confederate Mommy Washers" was pretty good. Then they went commercial with their Sony Records deal, and I lost all interest.

Bradthe🤖's avatar

The NYT loves them some Confederate Mommy Washers?

I’m shocked!

MRK's avatar

Confederate Mommy Washers sounds less safe for work than it is.

Craig Nixon's avatar

So you're saying Libertarian Mommy Milkers is out as a band name?

Back to the grindstone.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Yes, they can, you lying, smarmy, evil, fake christian bitch.

𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 ‘𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲’ 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘀

https://shorturl.at/7ET8H [Democracy Docket]

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

Early, in-person voting for me. I love it.

2Cats2Furious's avatar

I’ve always done early in-person voting, but I don’t think I can this year because my spinal issues make it painful for me to stand in one place for even a few minutes.

Even if there was NO line to vote, it takes forever at the voting machine, because Texas eliminated straight-party voting and then made it so every candidate and ballot measure is on a separate screen. I live in the largest country in the state, so that meant I had over 100 different screens for the 2024 election (the vast majority were for city, county, and appellate judges). That’s over 200 clicks to enter my vote and select the next screen, which takes some time.

Gonna try requesting a paper ballot this year on the basis of disability, which is the only condition for mail-in voting I qualify for in this fucking state.

ETA: Voting suppression takes many forms, and the Texas Legislature has done everything it can to reduce turnout in the big blue cities.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

We have paper ballots 100%. I can't imagine going through 100 screens ... what a fucking stupid design and UX.

2Cats2Furious's avatar

My county actually implemented a number of measures to make it easier to vote in 2020. Naturally, the Texas Legislature didn’t like that, so they quickly made those measures illegal.

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

That's awful. I usually have less than a dozen candidates and issues, and ours are all paper scan ballots. I know you can get them sent to you if you vote absentee.

2Cats2Furious's avatar

It’s insane. And also, the only circumstances where one can request an absentee ballot are if: (1) age 65 or older, (2) out of the county for Election Day AND the entire period for early voting; (3) in jail but not yet convicted, or conviction is in appeal; or (4) disabled and unable to vote in-person.

I don’t think Texas is as “red” as it seems to be. It’s just really adept at voter suppression for anyone who doesn’t live in a small rural county.

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

They will NOT be at my polling station. "Election watchers" have specific rules they must follow plus guns are not allowed on church property. I have one security person who votes with her gun on her hip and she gets to cut the line so she can be gone ASAP.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Same in Connecticut ... though as an election official I never looked up rules about firearms around the polling place.

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

We always talk about the rules during training. They basically leave it up to the poll inspector (title for the person who runs the polling station). Rather than confront people or make them go back to their car, I just vote them through and get them out.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

I'm a poll inspector (we call them moderators in CT) and I've never had that question come up. During the briefing this time, I think I'll mention it. 🤣

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Can we ban the pollsters? Democrats: POLLS DON'T VOTE. LISTEN TO THE ACTUAL VOTERS.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘙𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘻’𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥-𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘕𝘰𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘕𝘰𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘏𝘚 𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘈 𝘯𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 [𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘁𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲] 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘇 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗗𝗛𝗦 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱

"Why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"

https://shorturl.at/62oBH [Public Notice]

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Oh, yippee.

* 𝚆𝙷𝙰𝚃...𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝙰𝚍𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚢, 𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚠𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝟷𝟻 𝚝𝚘 𝟸𝟻 𝚖𝚙𝚑 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚘 𝟻0 𝚖𝚙𝚑 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍. 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚆𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚜 𝟸0 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚣𝚎𝚛𝚘 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍.

This is not a concern since everything in frozen in place under ICE AND SNOW.

* 𝙸𝙼𝙿𝙰𝙲𝚃𝚂...𝙶𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜.

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

That's like typical windy for OK.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Funny how Donnie Dipshit doesn't whine about the wind power being generated across OK and north/east Texas. Huh.

Tza's avatar

Yup. That's tomorrow for me. Feels Like temp will get down to negative seven degrees Fahrenheit. Yaaaaaay. -_-

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

We're going to be in the 70s in OK. Possibly record Highs.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Well, at least my taxpayer dollars are keeping the Capitol building warm, right?

Tza's avatar

Yeah we generally have good heating. But some of my poor coworkers have to be outside, as do some of USCP (latter at least get space heaters).

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Morning all. ☕️

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Morning Diane, et al.

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