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404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17h

Details on the lawsuit and how to support us here www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract

404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

www.404media.co

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17h

I spoke to Slate about why 404 Media is suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The company ICE contracted with can remotely break into phones without the target even clicking a link slate.com/podcasts/wha...

The People Suing ICE

What kind of spyware is ICE working with—and what government agencies are collaborating?

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 6h

Don't mess with librarians.

Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

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Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

Terri Lesley, a former library director, said she was wrongfully terminated for refusing to bow to county officials’ demands for censorship.

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Sara Mosle @smosle.bsky.social · 5h

So GOP response to Dems healthcare concerns is to make healthcare for Americans *worse*.

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samcborn.bsky.social @samcborn.bsky.social · 5h

😂 I see what you did here. Who could have known!

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neilpunkdafunk.bsky.social @neilpunkdafunk.bsky.social · 5h

Trump says he's cutting "Democrat Priorities." If Democrats don't use his words, and point to this and say "keeping Americans safe from infectious diseases is indeed our priority and obviously not the Trump Administration's" that is political malpractice.

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jmel55.bsky.social @jmel55.bsky.social · 5h

It’s a euphemism for “you’re a democrat and/or believe in science”

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buckygrad.bsky.social @buckygrad.bsky.social · 6h

Without the circlejerking of AI companies "investing" in one another, the US would be in recession

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Activate Maine💪🗓️ @activatemaine.bsky.social · 21h

The NO Kings DAY
ECONOMIC BLACKOUT
October 18th
No shopping
No spending
Shut the Country Down
Stand in Solidarity

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onelove20.bsky.social @onelove20.bsky.social · 9h

Republikkkans can never allow their opponents to speak, bcuz they don't wanna hear the truth. I remember that fruitcake in the red from 2020.

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samcborn.bsky.social @samcborn.bsky.social · 6h

The moderators had good questions but you couldn’t hear most responses bc they did not control Sears. It’s the Trump MAGA doctrine Sears used to deflect and destroy.

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Tim in the Mountains @nerdotim.bsky.social · 10h

If anyone can vote by absentee or mail in ballot, they should do that instead of by machine and then hand deliver the ballot to the town office and put it in the box if they can. F the postal service, computerized machines that are hackable & corruptible GOP officials.

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Kate Lynne @bigideakate.bsky.social · 13h

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Kate Lynne @bigideakate.bsky.social · 15h

Should we be worried about the announcement Dominion Voting Machines was sold to a Republican who vows to follow Trumps voting mandates?

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 15h

I don't think it's supposed to get us to change our minds. I mean.. a doctor's note to get an absentee ballot? Get serious.

I think it's supposed to cause 'disillusionment with the system' so that if they lose they can claim it was 'stolen'.

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Waiting for Abduction @w4abduction.bsky.social · 15h

I am reminded of Karl Rove breaking into his own Republican campaign headquarters during George W Bush's gubernatorial campaign and claiming Democrats did it. Rove wagged the dog right before voting day and Bush won.

Until Rs are punished for their hijinks, they will continue them.

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Tater Sallit @that1guyyouknew.bsky.social · 14h

Maine's law enforcement should be focusing on how that woman - a strong supporter of Maine's anti-democracy scheme - magically received 250 absentee ballots from 40 miles away in Ellsworth. This stinks like a 3-day old bucket of chum.

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William E Bales @williamebales.bsky.social · 14h

These can be used for names, addresses and personal information to cheat and rig more ballots in the midterm elections. Watch out for "additional voting ballots" to show election rigging in the next election! @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

2017 TRUMP: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

2025 TRUMP: “Thank you, Qatar, for my free $400,000,000 personal jet!”

TRUMP, a few months later: “I'm letting Qatar be the first foreign nation to build a military base on US soil.”

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President Calls on Qatar to Stop Supporting Terrorism

President Trump says the nation of Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level and that it's time to stop this funding, stop teaching hate, and stop the killing. "We ask Qatar and other ...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Grab the popcorn.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 9h

I’m going to subscribe to WaPo just so I can unsubscribe again.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

Odd, how Laura Loomer has to speculate about what Hell must be like, whereas anyone who has ever had to spend time with her does not.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

I suspect Laura Loomer is having an anti-Muslin, xenophobic tantrum over the Qatari Airbase in Idaho.

So sad when Trump's fans have a falling out with him. I'm crying as I type . . .

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samcborn.bsky.social @samcborn.bsky.social · 8h

“Democrat- oriented” that’s everything that helps Americans.