College English instructor. Hiker🚶🏻♀️➡️Political junkie. Topple authoritarians everywhere! America, you had a good run 🇺🇸1776-2016
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Turns out American's don't like presidents building monuments to themselves, enriching themselves & their family and friends, and kissing up to dictators. Even popular policies like the illegal immigration crackdown rebounded due to performative cruelty. Make America Good Again.
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This is former USN Admiral Eileen Laubacher, I say former because in his purge of senior military ( mostly female) Hegseth fired her.
Yesterday she beat Lauren Boebert in the election and is now in the congress.
She will be on the select committee to interrogate him
Laura Brown retweeted
Trump will never appoint another federal judge without the permission of senate Democrats.
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FLORIDA’S EXTRAORDINARY DELUGE 🌧️
Wait for it…
An estimated 1.88 TRILLION gallons of rain in 57 hours across the area shown—enough to cover 145,000 football fields, including end zones, 30 feet deep!
Radar estimates 30 inches near Palm Bay, with multiple torrential rainfall peaks stretching down Florida’s east coast. The radar-map area saw more than 2 dozen distinct Flash Flood Warnings, including rare #Florida Flash Flood Emergencies.
The geographic extent and repeated extreme totals make this an extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, non-tropical #rain #flood event.
A historic El Niño favors wetter Florida weather. Today’s warmer oceans and atmosphere also increase the moisture available to fuel extreme downpours. #elnino
Laura Brown retweeted
Today, I sent a letter putting New Jersey’s port and terminal operators on notice: importing Russian diesel violates federal law and could carry serious civil and criminal consequences.
New Jersey will not stand by while Donald Trump supports Vladimir Putin at the expense of Americans. Instead of lowering costs, these imports help finance Putin’s war against Ukraine and a campaign of violence and terror that endangers our servicemembers abroad.
As a Navy veteran, I cannot let that stand unchallenged. Our ports must not be complicit.
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It is truly astounding how Fox brainwashed people with “anger-tainment” into believing Trump is a Christian and cares about them. He is the ultimate con artist.
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Federal judge throws out Trump civil suit to prevent AK from certifying Senate race. Judge says it’s too late to make changes how AK will run election
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🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has DISMISSED Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.
The judge dismissed the case WITH PREJUDICE, meaning Trump cannot simply refile the lawsuit in the same court.
In a major First Amendment ruling, the judge rejected Trump’s argument that his denials should have prevented the newspaper from publishing its reporting, warning that such a standard would run afoul of the Constitution.
The judge also described the Journal’s reporting as a “thoughtful and detailed investigation” and concluded that Trump’s defamation claims “lack merit.”
The judge left open the possibility that Trump could be ordered to pay the newspaper’s attorneys’ fees.
Trump can appeal, but for now, this is a major legal defeat.
Laura Brown retweeted
We are in a constitutional crisis in which the president is using the DOJ to target political opponents and disenfranchise voters and overturn the outcomes of elections.
Meanwhile the legacy media treats this as clever strategy and both sides ignoring past norms.
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At least $2.6 million in user funds was drained from Polymarket accounts on Thursday after hackers exploited an engineering flaw in the prediction market’s website. on.wsj.com/4yLxB43
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Just In: Judge Warns Trump DOJ to Stop Threatening Election Workers talkingpointsmemo.com/news/j… via @TPM
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🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.
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We will wish we had listened to these warnings before the massive attack that is coming. To summarize: all code has bugs, continuous attacks by thousand of AI agents guarantees that they WILL eventually find their way into any website/database/system. So we need a new way of thinking about defense.
The cyber tsunami isn't a future prediction. It's here already.
As I’ve said before, all code is buggy. And recent events continue to prove this, at scale The exposure we just witnessed from vulnerabilities in the PHP engine made evident the buggy truth far faster than anyone in the industry expected.
PHP powers 70% of the web. For years, deep engine vulnerabilities inside platforms like Zend were known, but widely ignored because the industry assumed they were too complex for human attackers to weaponize.
AI just flipped that assumption on its head.
By drastically lowering the cost and time required to find exploits, AI models discovered attack paths that human developers couldn't easily see or predict. Attackers are no longer just exploiting custom application code; they are cracking open the underlying platform engines that power millions of websites simultaneously.
The waves are coming ashore.
AI creates "toxic combinations" by chaining together lower-priority bugs that seem harmless on their own. A Priority 3 bug today can easily become a Priority 0 crisis tomorrow when a smarter model finds a new way to connect the dots. In short: cyber attacks have moved beyond human comprehension.
The hard truth for every CEO and Board member is that much of the legacy cybersecurity playbook was built for a human-comprehension era. Those tools and assumptions are now obsolete.
You cannot patch your way out of a tsunami.
When every piece of software is penetrable under continuous AI analysis, the strategy has to change. Prevention alone is no longer enough
The ultimate metric is cyber resilience. You must assume breach, and preemptively plan to protect your core, critical operations, and ensure that your business can get back up and running the moment the water reaches you. It is rising around us all.
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WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a ‘shit house country’ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
