Bribery Has Two Ends. Trump Holds Both.
MAGA Inc. took $3.5 million from a pardon recipient's family. Trump signed the pardons. In August, on camera, he ended the “allies” fiction: the PAC is his.
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Reductio ad Duginum
Marlène Laruelle's comparison of Timothy Snyder to Alexander Dugin deploys a maneuver her own book calls a tool for character assassination.
You Are Here
Cyber defenders map intrusions in nine stages. America is at stage eight — with the intruder already deleting the logs.
Lawful Targets
Trump has ordered up a corporate cyber militia. Nothing in the order protects the militia.
Nothing Draws a Crowd Like the End of the World
Artificial intelligence is a brilliant toy and a useful tool. It is also a debt-fueled $725 billion buildout, sold on the end of the world and metered to the American ratepayer.
The Honest Curator
He fabricates nothing. The lie is in the hanging, and no fact-check can reach it.
Five Stars, Five Draft Deferments
On the president's new clothes
Foreign Hackers Hit America's Water. Trump Blamed a Democratic Governor. CISA Is Cutting Its Experts' Pay.
"We know these changes may result in financial hardship for some," Acting Director Nick Andersen wrote to staff, weeks after DHS told Congress the agency needs 600 more people.
The Incompetence Defense
On the provenance and uses of Singh's Law
The Impostor Got Verified. The Founder Couldn't.
On LinkedIn, a scammer impersonating a company can get verified more easily than the company can verify its own staff. The lock works; Microsoft owns the key.
North Korea Is Hiring
The recruiter was real, the company was real, and the code they asked him to run was a hacked poker game that helps fund a nuclear program.
"Having Birth": What Florida's New Security Law Is Actually For
Building a family in Florida now depends on where you were born. The Governor says that's the point. There's also prison time.