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EDUCATION

Over Half a Million Hit by Pennsylvania Schools Union Breach

TRUMPS WAR ON SCIENCE
If you’re out in public, you’re in contact with vulnerable people. Wear a mask.

RFK set to cut 10,000 HHS jobs  cause what could go wrong?
RFK Jr.’s campaign to swiftly bar the use of food stamps to buy soda is fueling tensions between his team and the Agriculture Department. The Health secretary’s push to approve state-level restrictions is irritating some Agriculture officials who see it as overreach.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-food-stamps-soda-usda-tension-00252045

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Multiple strands of conservative politics — from culture war to fiscal panic to RFK’s know-nothingism to tech millenarianism — are colliding to dismantle American scientific research. https://www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-war-on-science

Outspoken Fascism Scholars Leave Yale for Canada: Jason Stanley, decrying Columbia University’s capitulation to the federal government, is leaving for the University of Toronto. So is Marci Shore, who said she fears “civil war.”

Exclusive: An ambitious California Democrat wants the state to create its own National Institutes of Health and vaccine program, saying California can’t rely on the Trump administration to support research and science.

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President – Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Constrained by the APA’s “Goldwater rule”, which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to weigh in on the issue have shied away from discussing it at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.

Missourians voted to enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitution in the fall. But state leaders are still trying to exploit misinformation and undermine the will of voters.

SIGNAL GATE

There is a reason why they were using Signal.
WHY you ask??
So their conversation wouldn’t be under the FOIA.
There is a very LEGAL reason why they’re not supposed to be using 3rd party apps and comms – it’s for record keeping and legalities of their actions. They broke the law. Who could’ve known that the first president to be indicted for illegal removal of defense information would oversee an administration in which half his cabinet is now implicated for illegal removal of defense information?

We’re 4 days into #Signalgate and Trump clearly doesn’t even know what
@signalapp is. Who is running the White House?
Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin
We are being governed by incompetents and broligarchs who would start World War III with a pocket dial.
Jamie better get off Twitter and join Bernie Sanders and AOC at the rally.

Whiskeyleaks?

Signal.org provides good quality encrypted comms. But it is NOT
military-grade encrypted comms. Using it for military planning is
CRIMINAL.

Anonymous: All of Trump‘s top security advisors, including Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Mike Waltz, have had their mobile numbers, E-Mail and passwords placed in commercial databases & publicly available leaks. While they scramble to take down info, everything has been documented.

NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/

White House officials’ Signal group chat leak now includes passwords,
phone data
https://boingboing.net/2025/03/26/white-house-officials-signal-group-chat-leak-now-includes-passwords-phone-data.html

I just have one question for @PamBondi.
How many times does the Director of National Intelligence get to commit perjury in front of the entire world before she gets charged with perjury?

This is what I learned from the Houthis Signal chat. cc
THEY SHOULD ALL BE IN LEVENWORTH RIGHT NOW
@PeteHegseth @TulsiGabbard @VP @GenMErikKurilla @CENTCOM @CIADirector @marcorubio @SecScottBessent @SteveWitkoff @SusieWiles @StephenM

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
By Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris
1. The Trump Administration use of Signal for discussion of any military attacks with details on timing or movements is a threat to U.S. national security as well as a risk for the team conducting the operation.
“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package) ”
1415: Strike Drones on Target
(THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)”
“1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”
“MORE TO FOLLOW (peR timeline) ”
“We are currently clean on OPSEC”—that is, operational security.
“Godspeed to our Warriors.

If you don’t consider this to be classified info about imminent war plans, it *may* be that you’re too partisan to recognize the truth when it slaps you in the fucking face. If this had happened on Biden’s watch, Republicans would have rightly gone berserk.

It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
SPIEGEL International Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard
Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump’s most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL
has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet. https://www.mediaite.com/news/report-passwords-of-top-u-s-security-officials-found-online-hegseth-gabbard-waltz-among-those-affected/

What should enterprises make of the recent warnings about #AI’s threat to humanity? AI experts and ethicists offer opinions and practical advice for managing #AIRisk.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/feature/AI-existential-risk-Is-AI-a-threat-to-humanity

Trump announces 25% tariff on foreign cars and car parts in obvious attempt to help Tesla.
Donald Trump’s #Signalgate distraction is already killing American automakers. GM almost -9% in 15 minutes.

JUST IN: Ferrari to increase prices by 10% to offset President Trump’s tariffs.

Trump just issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator” —that is Elmo—access to the voter files of every state for the purpose of purging 21 million  Americans from voter rolls.

‘Diversity is not illegal’: Women in skilled trades brace for Trump’s DEI rollbacks he trades — occupations such as construction, welding and carpentry — have some of the smallest shares of female workers in the U.S., but they offer high salaries and competitive benefits, especially so for those without college degrees.

FBI agents apparently taken off other work to redact Epstein files + my suggestion Reportedly dozens of New York FBI agents have been diverted from their regular duties to work on redacting the Epstein files, around the clock. Here’s a suggestion that might speed their work
s/Trump//g
Don’t bother thanking me. -L

Last year, Marc Andreessen went on Rogan & accused the Consumer Fin Protection Bureau of terrorizing tech firms.
It turns out a firm he backed—Greenlight, a debit card for kids—was being probed by CFPB for not allowing kids to immediately access funds.
Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up

BITCOIN

Bitcoin is manifest destiny for America.

There’s talk on The Street of the FED setting up an emergency program that will close out “highly leveraged hedge fund trades” in the US Treasury market. Are you freaking kidding me!!!
Source: Bloomberg, Alex Harris, posted 3/26/25 @ 9 pm, updated 3/27/25 @ 7:40 am
Its always the taxpayer that covers the losses from these jackasses.
Study #Bitcoin

JPMorgan sees yield-bearing stablecoins growing from 6% to 50% of market share

Congressman Begich: The USA is gearing up to purchase 1 MILLION BITCOIN!
The biggest crypto move EVER is coming…

GAMESTOP INVESTOR TELLS FOX IT SHOULD BUY $2.5 BILLION WORTH OF #BITCOIN WITH CASH
“$GME IS GOING TO $100. THIS IS A $13 BILLION BTC HEDGE FUND.”
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