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!!!!!!!!!!!! Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit!!!!!!!!!!
Electoral College vote will secure Biden presidency
Rethuglicans can’t cancel the Electoral College
@USChamber @LEGALREFORM @RepublicanAGs and
LINDSEY GRAHAM ARE all #neoconfederate #treasonweasels
Call them at 202-463-5724 #democracy comes first.
Lawmakers Who Backed Texas should not be seated in the house
In 1861, 11 senators and 3 representatives were expelled for supporting the Confederacy and not acknowledging Lincoln’s legitimate election.
Twitter has put new restrictions on@realDonaldTrump It is now not only labeling his false claims but it is making it impossible to like or comment on two he just posted. It is a new level of shutting down this monster.
Blue states send more tax dollars to Washington than they get back. Red states get back more than they contribute. So if red states want to secede — as the Texas GOP chairman suggests — blue states will be able to keep our money. We’ll be far better off financially.
It’s pretty clear Trump’s team is going to keep filing lawsuits. As long as they’re filing lawsuits, Trump can raise hundreds of millions of dollars for them that actually go to his political group that can then spend the money at his properties. It was a grift all along.
The Biden White House will have a private contractor provide “disinfectant misting services” to clear the air of lingering droplets after Trump moves out and before Biden moves in.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/biden-covid-safety-transition-444040
JOB: Senior Cyber Threat Hunter
I’m looking for a motivated individual to join my team as a Sr Cyber Threat Hunter who will be responsible for identifying advanced adversary activity! Come help protect a company on the frontlines of creating breakthroughs that change patients’ lives!
https://pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PfizerCareers/job/United-States—Pennsylvania—Collegeville/Senior-Cyber-Threat-Hunter_4801101-1
MONEY
Mission Creep or Creepy Mission: The New York Fed’s Trading Desk Has
Ballooned to $6.59 Trillion Today from $576 Billion in 2008
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/12/mission-creep-or-creepy-mission-the-new-york-feds-trading-desk-has-ballooned-to-6-59-trillion-today-from-576-billion-in-2008/
While many are questioning Bitcoin’s foundations, perhaps even more importantly, Bitcoin is questioning the foundations of the central banks.
https://twitter.com/BlockBytch_/status/1337816189930770441
GOP Admits That Handing Out Free Money Creates Jobs
CRYPTO
Billionaire Mike Novogratz highlighted the insurer’s Bitcoin purchase as the most important news in the crypto space in 2020. The investment represents 0.04% of MassMutual’s $235 billion general investment account.
SCIENCE
Man frozen to death after Google Maps wrong turn. “A teenager froze to death in brutal -50C weather after his sat nav told him to take a wrong turn on Russia’s notorious Road of Bones. The Google Maps instructions sent him on a disused shortcut across the world’s coldest inhabited region, according to reports.”
Chemicals to Avoid: Groundbreaking Database of Illnesses from Pesticide Exposure Launched. “Beyond Pesticides’ relational Pesticide-Induced Diseases Database further serves the purpose of demonstrating how pervasive pesticides exposure and how exposure can impact human health with numerous adverse health outcomes. Those exposed to pesticides do not only develop one symptom or disease, but can develop multiple, interconnected diseases. Studies find that pesticide exposure can cause oxidative stress leading to various illnesses, including neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, or oncological diseases.”
K12 EDUCATION
U.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Used to Investigate Terrorists
In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to recover deleted messages from the phone. According to the arrest affidavit, investigators discovered the student and teacher frequently messaged each other, “I love you.” Two days later, the teacher was booked into the county jail for sexual assault of a child.
The Cellebrite used to gather evidence in that case was owned and operated by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. But these invasive phone-cracking tools are not only being purchased by police departments. Public documents reviewed by Gizmodo indicate that school districts have been quietly purchasing these surveillance tools of their own for years.
In March 2020, the North East Independent School District, a largely Hispanic district north of San Antonio, wrote a check to Cellebrite for $6,695 for “General Supplies.” In May, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD near Houston, Texas, paid Oxygen Forensics Inc., another mobile device forensics firm, $2,899. Not far away, majority-white Conroe ISD wrote a check to Susteen Inc., the manufacturer of the similar Secure View system, for $995 in September 2016.
Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents from eight school districts, seven of which are in Texas, showing that administrators paid as much $11,582 for the controversial surveillance technology. Known as mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs), this type of tech is able to siphon text messages, photos, and application data from student’s devices. Together, the districts encompass hundreds of schools, potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of students to invasive cell phone searches. < – >
https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393