Thomas Lavoy

@thomaslavoy.bsky.social

Product Manager at Microsoft. Nerd. Butler for my cat, dog, and children. Opinions are my own, unless they're bad, then I'll blame them on my mirror universe counterpart.

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

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Someone at work said, aspirationally, "what if everyone got a team of 200 AI agents when they graduated high school" and I've been staring blankly at a wall the entire day since then.

so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

In just one day, Trump engaged in massive corruption by selling early access to his Truth Social posts, rehashed patently false conspiracy theories & threatened to revoke tv licenses for not broadcasting his propaganda. He’s a disgrace. He’s a criminal. He needs to be removed from office & jailed.

one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

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Trump's declassified election intelligence pretty clearly shows that China *could have,* but didn't, meddle in the 2020 election to help Biden win. But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.

Table showing that Russia and Iran targeted and manipulated election processes, but that China took "preliminary or preparatory steps, with or without specific intent."

Intelligence dated August 19, 2020CIA memo: "However, we assess at this
time China probably judges the risk of being caught interfering in the US election outweighs any
potential gains."

He feels cornered. He sees what will happen when we take back power, so he’s lashing out the only way he knows how.   Election conspiracy theories didn’t save him in 2020. They won’t save him in 2026.

This speech is quite literally an impeachable offense. The President is trying to undermine faith in US elections and to delegitimize the elections of public officials.

Conducting assessments of voting systems’ vulnerabilities is not the same as those vulnerabilities being successfully exploited Uncovering adversaries’ plans for interference is not the same as successful interference happening Voter registration data is public Trump was president in 2020