DistrictofAlex
@districtofalex.bsky.social
Infosec, GRC. Reading past the headline. Unwisely sarcastic. Go Orioles!
A small army of volunteer security experts has spent the past few years helping rural water utilities with cybersecurity. How has it gone? What have they learned? And what's next? Read my (timely!) new story about DEF CON Franklin: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/water-c...
How volunteer cyber experts are helping protect rural water systems
A first-in-the-nation program is seeing promising results as it charts a path for supporting the U.S.’s most vulnerable infrastructure.
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As I've said many times, the revocation of TPS for Haitians is horrific on its face, but it's *also* going to have a devastating cascade of effects because Haitian workers are the backbone of health and human services supports for elderly and disabled folks, especially here in Massachusetts.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
For the second time this week: bsky.app/profile/davi...
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoBreaking news: President Trump imposed new tariffs that it bills as combating forced labor but that critics say are part of his broader campaign to reduce Americans’ reliance on imports. The announcement affects U.S. purchases from 60 nations.
this seems like it broke containment so please help save chaco canyon! Go comment on this!!!!
Daniel - Desert Apostate@hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 3w agoThe asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...
You're not hearing about big wins in renewable energy in the U.S. because people building this infrastructure do not want to attract the attention of the Trump administration. But they're happening. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
History is constantly being obfuscated, appropriated and rewritten. The “Lost Cause narrative” drives much of what we see today from the legacy confederacy. Truth is subjective. It is what you can flood the zone with and convince people is true. This is all inherent to their beliefs.
Joe Agnew@jontler.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe thing I return to, over and over this past decade, is that I don’t understand how these people don’t realize that their legacies in history will be as footnote accomplices to evil.
Just some of the over 700.000 artefacts found during the building of the Amsterdam metro. This superb website has catalogued about 20.000 of them, such a delight to go through: belowthesurface.amsterdam You can also see some of them in person at Rokin station.
You may remember during DOGE chainsawing USAID early on they said they wouldn't kill PEPFAR. Not true. Massive cuts in funding and implementation details, and we're holding HIV meds hostage to African countries signing away mineral rights to the U.S.
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The Trump administration has struck what some see as the final blow to PEPFAR, the vaunted US program that has saved the lives of 26 million people living with HIV. The State Dept now says that as of 30 September, CDC support for PEPFAR will end in most countries." www.science.org/content/arti...
southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks
Julie O'Donoghue@jsodonoghue.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Louisiana House voted 78-14 for a bill to transfer Confederate monuments that have been removed to state parks, where they would be on display again. Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said this is about moving monuments removed in New Orleans in 2017. #lalege lailluminator.com/2026/05/11/l...
“A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.”
Nick Kristof@nickkristof.bsky.social · 3mo agoHaving destroyed America's aid agency, President Trump is now withholding GAVI vaccines from poor countries--like a $3 vaccine against malaria, and a $4 vaccine against cervical cancer. Countless thousands will die. Destroying aid is Trump's single most lethal policy: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...
"Crane warned...that such “systemic failures” are “not only possible but inevitable” because the AI industry is “building AI-agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it’s building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe”."
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3mo agoA year later, checking back in on those "fully AI employees a year away" to see how successful they are and oh no
The destruction and devastation is rapid and unyielding
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 3mo agoThe United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
Revoking kids' visas because their parents criticized Elon Musk.
Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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The attache, Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho, seems to have tried to get the US government to detain & deport Brazilian intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem, who fled Brazil in September following his conviction for plotting a coup with ex-President Jair Bolsonaro. Instead, the US will expel Carvalho.
Reuters@reuters.com · 4mo agoUS asks Brazil's security attache to leave country reut.rs/4ewPqgK
It’s not a novel point but one that is still, to this day, fundamentally misunderstood by most even well meaning people who are strongly opposed to [waves arms around] all of this
Nick Brumfield@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt would be interesting to discursively analyze in his public statements over time, because it might suggest that he is not only undermining institutions because they are checks on his power but also because he personally can't conceive of institutions as something that exist
Legal eagles noticed, and there’s been SOME mainstream coverage. But overall the political class has underreacted to this month’s OLC opinion, ordered up by Trump or on his behalf, declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. Things are likely being stolen and/or destroyed *right now*.
Donald Trump's Plan To Steal Or Destroy Everything
We should assume it's underway, starting with the Epstein files.
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There are two videos from two D.C. officers: youtube.com/watch?v=gOIw... youtube.com/watch?v=bRpW... They don't show the shooting itself, but the footage seems to confirm Brown's claim that he wasn't at all a threat to police and federal agents after he was pulled over.
Outside Agency UOF: 10/17/25, 3900 b/o Benning Rd, NE, MPD Witness Officer 1 BWC Redacted
YouTube video by Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department
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CNET is being brought back after the AI articles fiasco www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...
They probably only let him out to avoid having him die in ICE custody. Really a 360-degree assault — decimate cancer research, send health insurance premiums skyrocketing, then detain thousands of people and deny them healthcare. Death cult.
Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 4mo agoOudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
Worthwhile read for those interested in NATO, Ukraine, and/or the state of military readiness
War on the Rocks@warontherocks.bsky.social · 4mo agoA NATO training scenario in the Baltics took an unexpected turn. The opposing force was only ten Ukrainians.
