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This comment in a recent thread about scams prompted me to finally post this: With the ever-increasing scope of cyberattacks and assorted scams (and the failures that allow them to happen), should we create a Civil Cyber Defense network? This would be...
by Wired Wolf
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Two stories. Two questions. Story 1: Driving up the mountain pass last week with my young grandson, our conversation took a fairly common turn: Donald Trump. I usually watch Colin one afternoon a week and he often obsesses about the DT when we first...
by rflctammt
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You read that correctly. Here’s how it happened: On page 397 of her new memoir, “My Name Is Barbra”, Streisand recounts how, in 1973, she was asked to put on a fundraiser for Daniel Ellsberg, who was running out of money fighting his court battle...
by blueoregon
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I have been troubled over the past few weeks by some events happening on our nation’s college campuses, particularly the Ivy League. At one campus, I believe it was Columbia, the police were even called in to break up the protests with force by the...
by WaryLiberal
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Trump and Pecker decided in 2015 to commit crimes with the single purpose of getting Trump elected president. These crimes define theft. And no question, they and their Republican partners stole that election. It doesn’t matter that the Republicans are...
by BewareInfiltration
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Computer and mobile phone users worldwide remain at risk of financial fraud, romance scams, identity theft, and other harms perpetrated by malicious hackers, IT security experts warned earlier this month. Flaw-riddled software sold by famous vendors...
by Wilson Dizard III
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I wrote back in February about how the book banning frenzy in Florida caused solely by Ron DeSantis was a complete and utter mess. Well, I have an update for you: it’s still a complete and utter mess. And despite Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ongoing attempts to...
by davidkc
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. erroneously contends President Joe Biden is more of a threat to U.S. democracy than former President Donald Trump, a notion political experts find to be “preposterous” and “absurd” Former President Donald J. Trump has declined to...
by frankfaiola
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The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user who uses a pseudonym on the social platform X claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three...
by Associated Press
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Reposted from My Substack. Biden-Harris HQ @BidenHQ Trump calls for mass detention camps and rounding up millions of Latinos, saying it will be larger than a 1950s military operation called “Operation Wetback” 7:38 AM · Apr 4, 2024 “We’re going to have...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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