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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 8h

Have we forgotten this from 2017? Trump supported a joint cyber security unit with Russia.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 7h

There is background radiation all over the internet and it feels like war to me. Nearly every website is getting slammed with traffic that appears to be from AI scrapers? But no one really know where it's all coming from. These days you can hardly run a small website without a CDN to shield you.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h

Did you know the Israeli military has spyware that can compromise pretty much any target's mobile phone? Mostly via memory corruption, which CISA coordinated fixes for across industry.

We are not getting prepared for a world of more Pegasus-like attacks. Instead we are moving backward.

Triple Threat: NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Returns in 2022 with a Trio of iOS 15 and iOS 16 Zero-Click Exploit Chains - The Citizen Lab

In 2022, the Citizen Lab gained extensive forensic visibility into new NSO Group exploit activity after finding infections among members of Mexico’s civil society, including two human rights defenders...

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h

Today the administration is also firing IT people across government, in particular at the Treasury. What could go wrong??? All in addition to the DOGE firings.

We are not just failing at cyber preparedness, but also psychological warfare and biological attack. Things are real grim at the CDC, etc.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h

The court ignored 18F's recommendations to fix their security, and instead signed a $298 million contract with General Dynamics. I guess why not buy your websites where you buy your M1 Abrams main battle tanks?

The contract does not include cybersecurity services.

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h

Court administrators refuse to fix it. They keep citing a project with my old org, 18F, way back in 2021. We recommended they start building immediately! Instead the have been "approaching the development and implementation phase" for 4-5 years, building nothing. And lacking proper security.

Recognizing the need to leverage outside expertise in the development of our ITinitiatives, the AO has used many of the recommendations made by the General ServicesAdministration’s 18F organization in 2021 in our preparations for modernizing CM/ECF.Although in your letter you state, “[w]hile the judiciary has solicited advice from leadinggovernment experts on establishing a modern, secure and efficient case management system, thejudiciary thus far has ignored that advice and has made no meaningful progress towards areplacement,” this is simply not the case.The AO remains at work in modernizing CM/ECF to bring it in line with currenttechnology practices. Substantial planning for the modernization effort began in 2022, and weare now approaching the development and implementation phase of the project. We expectimplementation will begin in the next two years in a modular and iterative manner. For the pastfew years we have been analyzing and developing operations standards while testing technicalcomponents. The AO is centralizing the operation and data standards for the system to allow amore secure environment and to ensure local rules and procedures are accommodated.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h

Did you know that the federal court system is hacked by the Russians? To the point that the courts are afraid to put documents into their own computer systems.

Exclusive: Chief Justice “Stonewalls Congress" on PACER Hack, Senator Says

The Courts sidestep a congressional request for independent review. Post-hack procedures have significantly reduced transparency in the judicial system.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Cheryl C 🇨🇦 @carleysue.bsky.social · 13h

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“When certain friends would visit, he’d be very, very happy … I’ve got some memories of him laughing pretty hard over some very inappropriate jokes.”

In an exclusive interview, Jack Osborne looks back on the pain and joy of Ozzy’s final years ↓

Jack Osborne Looks Back on the Pain and Joy of Ozzy's Final Years

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

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Teddi @mstjtou.bsky.social · 13h

I realize they don't need a war, but tRUmp sure acts like he is looking to start one. Doesn't matter with who, really.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h

“I don’t think, in health policy history, we’ve [ever] seen as big a projected increase in health insurance premiums.”

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 19h

A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its removal. trib.al/UXXkNDL

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed by Friday

A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its remo…

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 17h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Teddi @mstjtou.bsky.social · 14h

If you aren't following Mother Jones, you are missing out.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20h

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20h

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

NEW: A $915 million contract to fly immigrants out of the country was awarded to a brand new firm with DHS ties. A rival say it’s “unlawful.”

Massive DHS "self-deportation" contract challenged as secretive and "unlawful"

The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

How big is ICE’s projected budget? This big: bit.ly/4o9oW6y

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

Today, as the government shutdown persists, the Trump administration has started to fulfill its long-held promise to lay off federal workers.

The man behind all this chaos? Russ Vought, the “grim reaper” of government cuts, who @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social profiled back in 2024:

The bureaucrat who could make Trump's authoritarian dreams real

Russ Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights.

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Teddi @mstjtou.bsky.social · 14h

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Teddi @mstjtou.bsky.social · 15h

Guess he's trying to provoke a war with China.

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