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#POLITICS
ლ(ᗒ⏠ᗕლ) It’s like Watergate but with Morons
18% of Americans think Trump is the most admired man in America. 25% of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth. It’s not hard to see why so many are so easily manipulated.
The New York attorney general asked a judge to ban former President Donald Trump from doing real estate business in the state for life, ban him from serving as an officer or director of a New York corporation, and fined $370 million.
We Don’t Talk About Leonard
The conservative legal movement in the United States is more powerful than ever. One largely unknown man has played a significant role in pushing the American judiciary to the right: Leonard Leo.
Leonard Leo realized it wasn’t enough to have justices on his side. They needed to decide the right cases, brought by the right lawyers, heard by the right lower court judges. He built a machine to do just that.
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-podcast
Trump Breaks the Law
Today, the House Oversight Committee Democrats released a report revealing that former President Trump’s businesses received $7.8 million from foreign governments over two years of his presidency. China was the biggest spender. Saudi Arabia was second.
Money flowed through his various hotels. Disgusting corruption — and gross violation of Constitution’s emoluments clause.
Former Capitol Police officer outspoken about Jan. 6 launches run for Congress
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/former-capitol-police-officer-harry-dunn-jan-6-run-congress-rcna132110
Chuck Todd: Confronting Trump
The Trump era shows that frontal confrontation, not bank-shot attacks, are the way to deal with the former president. But the lesson hasn’t sunk in everywhere.
Traitor Mike Flynn is a Vladimir Putin partner and should be arrested now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCIHd5ppR9w
@jimstewartson “The root cause of Mike Flynn’s damage is his parents Helen & Charles who were racist, fascist monsters.
Helen dragged her kids to what Mike Flynn calls “forced family fun” which
were “anti-communist,” anti-abortion marches. Helen had nine kids because she was a religious cult member.
Mike Flynn blamed his mom for the occult “I AM” prayer he led an evangelical church to chant. He said he kept in his wallet.
Flynn has talked about his father’s physical abuse countless times, and made it clear that his mom was psychologically abusive as well.”
There is one theory that fully explains the massive support that Trump continues to get among the Republican voting base: That they’re racist. To be clear, this is a theory, not a conclusion. News consumers deserve an explanation for the MAGA phenomenon and right now they’re not getting it. And this theory certainly would explain a lot. Racism, especially when it comes to calling specific people or practices racist, has long been the third rail of journalism. Newsroom leaders don’t want to be accused of stoking racial resentment, don’t want to alienate racist readers, and don’t want to have to defend their own insufficient attempts to diversify their newsrooms and sources. They just don’t want to go there.
https://presswatchers.org/2024/01/how-much-of-trumps-support-is-due-to-racism/
Fox News Habba says:
I think it should be a slam dunk in the supreme court. I have faith in
them. You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for,
who the president went through hell to get into place. He’ll step up.
Kavanaugh MUST RECUSE HIMSELF.
Illinois voters latest to challenge Trump candidacy under 14th Amendment
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4389686-illinois-voters-latest-to-challenge-trump-candidacy-under-14th-amendment/
More than 1,230 people have been charged with federal crimes in the riot
One of the biggest remaining mysteries surrounding the riot is the identity of the person who placed two pipe bombs outside the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees the day before the Capitol attack.
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-criminal-cases-anniversary-bf436efe760751b1356f937e55bedaa5
Why Trump can’t use the ‘idiot’ defense other Jan. 6 defendants often lean on
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-cant-use-idiot-defense-jan-6-defendants-often-lean-rcna129961
Florida venue cancels Marjorie Taylor Greene event after learning of its Jan. 6 focus. The event was originally touted as book-signing hosted by a local Republican Party.
The GOP glorification of the failed 1/6 coup is reminiscent of the NAZI glorification of the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-venue-cancels-marjorie-taylor-greene-jan-6-event-rcna132365
Great news! Florida abortion rights initiative reaches ballot threshold
The state validated 910,946 signatures as of Friday. Advocates needed only 891,523 to make the ballot.
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/florida-abortion-ballot-vote-2024
Christian Vanderbrouk:
Trump lawyer: “The objective here is to create delay… void the results favoring Biden.”
They tried to disenfranchise millions of Americans to give Trump illegitimate power.
It was a plot against the US Constitution and democracy itself and they’d do it again if we let them.
We still don’t know where all the classified documents Trump stole went to. He flew some to Bedminster in advance of one of his Saudi Foreign Agent events, and they’ve disappeared forever.
China spent nearly $5.6m at Trump Tower in NYC, and at his two Trump International Hotels in DC and Las Vegas.
Saudi Arabia spent the next-greatest sum, with $615,422 channeled to Trump Tower and the Trump International Hotel in DC. Qatar spent $465,744 at Trump World Tower, a NYC apartment building.
Others include, Afghanistan, Kuwait, India, Malaysia, the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jan/04/biden-republican-january-6-trump-election-politics-latest-updates
Tool and the Gang
For example, it happened with St. John McCain, who caused great offense to the dominionist scum who are one of the central pillars of the Republican Party.
We’re In An Epidemic Of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell The Press? More than a decade of media malpractice enabled January 6. Has the media learned its lesson?
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2024/01/were-in-an-epidemic-of-right-wing-terror-wont-someone-tell-the-press/
Trump shared his video on claiming that God has chosen him to be “a shepherd to mankind.” This is not funny. This is not parody. This is terrifying. God Made Trump (According to Trump) | Antichrist 45
Donald Trump’s campaign directly orchestrated the filing of a certificate, signed by 16 Michigan Republicans, that falsely claimed he won the state’s 2020 election, according to internal campaign emails obtained by The Detroit News.
Deranged Trump wrote, “CROOKED JOE BIDEN and the Radical Left Democrats, together with their minions in the DOJ, are coming after me…Crooked Joe is a Threat to Democracy!!!
They are setting a horrible precedent for the future of our Country.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-investigation-2666879752/
A federal court in Georgia has ruled that the challenge to 360,000 Georgians’ right to vote — suspiciously targeting Black voters — does not violate the Voting Rights Act. This decision poses a devastating threat to the 2024 election.
https://www.gregpalast.com/court-approves-vigilante-mass-voter-challengesdevastating-threat-to-2024-election/
Biden falls behind Trump’s pace on confirming judges as he enters a fourth year in office
Ohio’s lawless, gerrymandered politicians cooking up another outrageous scheme: “The bill would make it so the Ohio General Assembly, not the courts, would have exclusive authority over implementing Issue 1, which
covers reproductive decisions.”
https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-issue-1-abortion-reproductive-rights-new-bill/46285727
#AI
Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Democracy
By Jen Easterly, Scott Schwab, and Cait Conley
January 3, 2024
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/node/1131238
Counting—and perhaps more importantly, it lies about whether it knows how to count. It’s completely false that it has “been programmed to accurately perform tasks like counting”; in fact the opposite is true.
AI WILL LIE TO YOU ABOUT ANYTHING IT WANTS TO LIE ABOUT.
#HEALTH
Nature’s Neighborhood Surprise: 1,000+ Wildlife Species Under Our Noses
https://scitechdaily.com/natures-neighborhood-surprise-1000-wildlife-species-under-our-noses/
Researchers may have discovered the cause of Parkinson’s disease
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/researchers-may-have-discovered-the-cause-of-parkinson-s-disease
Telehealth for weight loss drugs
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/weight-loss-drug-online-website-eli-lilly-rcna131597
Lilly’s weight loss drug Zepbound.
The doctors will work independently and will be able to prescribe any FDA-approved weight loss drug — they won’t be required to prescribe Lilly’s Zepbound.
Surprising connection between dinosaurs and human ageing
The Longevity Bottleneck Hypothesis
It suggests that the rapid aging observed in modern mammals, including humans, is a consequence of this ancient genetic legacy.
Hospitals seeing ‘exponential’ rise in flu cases in Western Pa.
https://triblive.com/local/regional/hospitals-seeing-exponential-rise-in-flu-cases-in-western-pa/
#SECURITY
In 1959, Volvo invented the 3 point seat belt and gave the free license away to all auto manufacturers dramatically improving drivers and passengers safety
Chinese billionaire behind Himalaya Exchange indicted for $1B scheme
https://protos.com/chinese-billionaire-behind-himalaya-exchange-indicted-for-1b-scheme/
(the billionaire involved Bannon)
Breaking “DRM” in Polish trains
Reverse engineering a train to analyze a suspicious malfunction
We’ve all been there: the trains you’re servicing for a customer suddenly brick themselves and the manufacturer claims that’s because you’ve interfered with a security system.
This talk will tell the story of a series of Polish EMUs (Electric Multiple Unit) that all refused to move a few days after arriving at an “unauthorized” service company. We’ll go over how a train control system actually works, how we reverse-engineered one and what sort of magical “security” systems we actually found inside of it.
Reality sometimes is stranger than the wildest CTF task. Reality sometimes is running `unlock.py` on a dozen trains.
The talk will be a mix of technical and non-technical aspects of analysis which should be understandable for anyone with a technical background. We’ll briefly explain how modern EMUs look like inside, how the Train Control & Monitoring System works, and how to analyze TriCore machine code.
Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control
Meredith Whittaker
Iranian attacks on U.S. water systems and the data broker economy
#BITCOIN
Nobel Prize winning economist, Friedrich Hayek predicted #Bitcoin in the year 1984. Legendary.
Michael Saylor thinks #Bitcoin will hit $350,000 in 2024.
@Timccopeland
Full quote: “I heard from a pretty well placed source that Blackrock has more than $2 billion lined up in week one in new incremental flows from existing Bitcoin holders who are adding to positions — I can’t vouch for that. But you know, that’s what everyone is doing. Just making phone calls and trying to find the folks who can write checks into these products. And our estimates — that, you know, if that $2 billion happened in week one, you know, that would blow away our estimates. We’re at $2.5 billion in the first quarter of trading, which we do by looking at the past flows into the first gold ETF and adjusting by the US money supply. And we have a $40 billion market opportunity over two years based on the similar analysis.”