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Daniel Lenski
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I like life in Vancouver 🇨🇦, languages, open-source software, solving confusing problems with data, dogs, distance running, and my 👶 son. It's just everything else that worries me.
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I discovered and disclosed a major vulnerability in the cloud-connected #IoT smart thermostats made by Mysa.

They were completely open to remote monitoring and control.

Details of the discovery and disclosure, and what it means 👇

snowpatch.org/posts/i-can-...
A total remote-control and remote-discovery vulnerability in IoT smart thermostats
tl;dr Until this past week, an attacker could have easily and surreptitiously discovered, monitored, and controlled all of the Mysa smart thermostats in the world. Mysa thermostat owners use the Andro...
snowpatch.org
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My constituent Any Lopez Belloza was wrongfully deported in shackles to Honduras without proper due process.

Now, the Trump Administration is sending ICE agents to threaten her family for speaking out.
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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we are going to win. have you heard this? we are going to win. “we are going to win.” it’s a beautiful phrase really. we are. going to. win. it’s a tremendous phrase. more and more people are saying it. “we are going to win.” many such cases!
i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The story (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...) also lets people believe a million immigrants is a lot. It's not. In 2023 there were 32 million immigrants here who arrived in the last 26 years -- well over a million a year. A healthy level of immigration is probably higher than that.
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Farmers get a bail out in the face of the costs they've born from Trump's trade war. Quite an admission that his policies have hurt Americans.

Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
December 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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It’s wild what happens when people go through life under the assumption that every stranger is a threat and not their neighbor.
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Whoa … this is really strange.

Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.

🎁 link ⤵️

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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it's good that we have hellfire missiles to defend ourselves from two guys hanging on to a capsized boat, who knows what might have happened otherwise
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?

TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, a former Army Reserve major who got a Bronze Star for 2007 service as a squadron judge-advocate, is "still haunted by decisions I made in Iraq."

"But I can't imagine the guilt of criminal conduct, of deliberately killing the people I'm supposed to protect."
* Gift link⤵️
Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is Doing Something Even Worse Than Breaking the Law
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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reading this my main thought is that the leavitt family appears to be a bunch of degenerates and this woman was unlucky to enter their orbit
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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BESSENT: When you come to this country, you gotta learn which side to drive on, you've gotta learn to stop at stop signs, and you gotta learn not to defraud the American people

BRENNAN: Well, there is plenty of criminal behavior from communities well beyond the immigrant community
December 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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ICE is still here, in #s similar to what they had in August, before the surge. But I think the biggest reason Border Patrol left is it snowed, so there are no longer landscapers for them to kidnap

BUT, this is a good point, friction=costs. It got _very_ hard for CBP to kidnap people in Chicagoland
I had been trying to figure out why ICE abruptly pulled out of Charlotte, and "DHS spending/budget numbers came back for Chicago operations and freaked some people out" is as good a theory as any.
i think people have mostly, finally gotten over the fear that trump's going to deploy DHS troops out to every city in america, what people need to internalize next is that they will not have the money to sustain even their *current* operations within a year and a half
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.

They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Is it because the answer is super racist and would cause a backlash?
December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Have to admit it. "Alcoholic Fox News host uses US Navy to kill people at random on boats in the Caribbean because an extremist podcast producer asked him to, while Trump pardons drug dealer kingpins because a tech guy asked" is rather a lot darker than anything I imagined when he was reelected.
Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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"Pete Hegseth was already on social media crowing about it and treating it like it was a video game."

@radiofreetom.bsky.social and @stephruhle.bsky.social discuss the Pentagon carrying out another deadly boat strike in the midst of a controversy over a strike in September.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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#GVerse #Veterans
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Ah yes, let's bring in tourists from around the world and show them how the US hosts. It will be so dangerous form anyone to go there. Hey, come to Canada instead. We don't arrest tourists.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM