NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital

The cyber division of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations on Saturday quietly lifted a stop-work order put into place by the Biden administration in October.

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he still lives on in the world we left behind

personally, I think it is a problem if a Substack eugenicist has access to lists of millions of people by race www.theverge.com/analysis/703...

The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application

A politically-motivated hack on a politically-vulnerable school is flying under the radar

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

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still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that today wasn’t friday

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

The threat and policy landscape is changing. How can we support effective cybersecurity at the state, local, and tribal levels? @stefanijones.bsky.social dives into this question in a new thought piece. Read her insights on the evolving roles in cyber policy: www.aspendigital.org/blog/state-a...

We’re joining @aspendigital.bsky.social in celebrating 10 years of the #AspenCyber Summit in DC this November 18. Be part of the conversation, and the movement to act, on the most pressing cybersecurity issues of our time. Learn more and register: www.aspencybersummit.org #CyberCivilDefense #take9

Aspen Cyber Summit

The Aspen Cyber Summit is the nation’s premier annual technology and cybersecurity policy gathering.

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"What could be more anti-American than banishing potential immigrants who have come to our country to learn and contribute to our society?"

Susan Glasser@sbg1.bsky.social · last yr.

People not pawns, the editorial board at the Crimson is right on here… www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Catch @vivianschiller.bsky.social on the west stage at @rsaconference.bsky.social today at 11:35am PT for a session on cyber messages that mobilize with @craignewmark.bsky.social, Michael Schmidt of #ZeroDay, and @wondros.bsky.social's president. Not in SF? Watch the stream: www.rsaconference.com

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🚨 Two BIG updates for the 2025 #CyberCivilDefense Summit! 🚨 🔑 Udbhav Tiwari, VP of Strategy & Global Affairs at @signal.org joins as our final Summit keynote! 📅 The agenda is LIVE! We have officially locked in the schedule — and the lineup is stacked! Register today 👇 cybercivildefensesummit.org

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...

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"At least five children and three adults with cholera died as they went in search of treatment in South Sudan after aid cuts by the Trump administration shuttered local health clinics" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says

The victims died on a grueling three-hour walk in scorching heat as they tried to reach the nearest remaining health facility, officials of Save the Children said.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH... "Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work and the US sank deeper into the great depression." (The average tariff under Smoot Hawley was 20%. As of "Liberation Day", the average tariff will be 22.5%)

Hawley–Smoot Tariff - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

YouTube video by International School History

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The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

This is as cruel and crazed as it is anti-constitutional. Kafka + Orwell + de Sade www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

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We'll be at #WiCyS2025 in Dallas next week. If you're there too, make sure to stop by the #Take9 chalk wall or career fair booth to say hi to @amira.bsky.social, @stefanijones.bsky.social, and Devon! www.wicys.org See something phishy? Pause for 9 seconds for a more cyber secure future.

daily reminder to take your meds, stay hydrated, and keep your OPSEC clean

This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · last yr.

Mom of child dead from measles: “Don’t do the shots,” my other 4 kids were fine arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

It’s the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at Selma, and thus the 10th anniversary of President Obama’s speech there, my favorite of all his public oratory, although it reads differently now. 🧵 time.com/3736357/bara...

Read the Full Text of Obama's Speech in Selma

The President spoke on Saturday in Selma, Ala.

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Fascinating article from two researchers who have been studying right wing media with recommendations for how the left can/should build new media infrastructure to compete: jacobin.com/2025/03/left...

The Left Needs Media That Competes — and Wins

The Right’s growing success with working-class voters wasn’t won with policy papers or think tanks; it was built through media that speaks their language. If the Left wants to compete, it needs to bui...

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Not to like toot my own horn but *every time* I bring up tariffs on the radio I define them: "tariffs are taxes American businesses pay to import goods from abroad." Given all the lies and the fact that many Americans didn't take international economics 101, I encourage others to do this as well.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Jim Sciutto@jimsciutto.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.

“A person familiar with the matter… said analysts were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency. “The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed””

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

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crazy how stellar reporting can be good for business

Mediagazer@mediagazer.com · last yr.

Wired gained 62,500 new subscribers in the US during the first two weeks of February, as the tech outlet aggressively covers the Trump administration and DOGE (David Bauder/Associated Press) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Please don't let the reporting about the Pentagon purge focus solely on DEI/Joint Chiefs. Firing the service TJAGs - the top lawyers for Army, Navy, USAF/Space Force - is incredibly consequential. A little context🧵on why.

Alexander S. Vindman@avindman.bsky.social · last yr.

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.