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Jonathan Pryor retweeted
It's not hard to work out the playbook here: acquire a widely used model of voting machine, hack it, and then one of three possibilities:
– don't disclose the vulnerability until after the voting is done, creating pressure for votes cast using that model to be discarded as insecure;
– disclose it just before the vote and demand that the machines not be used, throwing the election into chaos;
– use the disclosure as justification for federal forces to physically seize the voting machines, with the same result.
Whichever scenario they had in mind, it's possible, maybe even likely, that this represents preparation for events never seen before in a Western democracy.
I'd be interested to know what @C_C_Krebs thinks about all this...
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Discord told users it doesn’t look at their messages, calls, or other content when sorting accounts by age. Florida is now suing Discord because it doesn’t look at their messages, calls, or other content. The complaint objects that Discord’s filters only scan images and videos and leave text, voice, and calls untouched.
It lists voice and video channels as an unfair practice. It wants ID checks before users can be seen or share anything.
The state is seeking up to $150,000 per violation and a court order to make it happen.
Florida calls this child safety but it's a demand that nobody on Discord gets to have a private conversation again.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
‼️ DHS political appointees asked CISA to secretly obtain a voting machine and hack it
The findings were only to be shared with the White House, and the vendor was not to be told of any flaws
CISA employees feared they were being asked to participate in political interference
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
This thread offers a quite logical prediction of our economic future post-Trump.
Worth a read.
5/5 Now, I love America. I'm writing this because I want ordinary Americans to understand the consequences of these disastrous decisions.
The damage being done to America's reputation won't be reversed by the results of the next elections. It will take decades to rebuild that trust.
And the economic consequences, while not immediate, will go much further than a potential 2 cents per gallon decrease in diesel prices.
And if you think the world doesn't notice, or that everything I'm describing is just hypothetical, let me give you two examples of what is already happening.
These decisions were made even before the latest Starshield restrictions, which only make the problem much worse.
Airbus, one of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers, has already signed a contract to move 70 critical applications from Amazon AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway, with plans that could eventually include 900 applications.
Airbus specifically mentioned concerns about foreign laws and potential "kill switches" when choosing its new provider.
In the Netherlands, one of the country's largest telecom companies, KPN, partnered with German Schwarz Digits to build European cloud infrastructure using STACKIT, hosted in Dutch data centers and controlled by European companies.
The Dutch government has also approved STACKIT as an alternative cloud provider for its agencies.
These aren't some people complaining about Trump on Twitter.
These are major corporations signing real contracts, investing real money and building infrastructure to reduce their dependence on American technology.
And that's the part Americans need to understand.
For decades the USA was a reliable partner. Republicans and Democrats disagreed about plenty of things, but America's foreign policy was built around long-term strategic interests and institutions that survived changes in presidents.
Countries trusted the USA enough to build entire industries around its technology.
Now a foreign government has to consider whether some American president might wake up tomorrow wanting cheaper gas, believing another promise from Putin, getting angry with its elected leadership, or trying to get a better deal for his friends.
And suddenly technology that was supposed to make that country more productive becomes a potential political weapon against it.
The USA spent decades making the world dependent on its technology because the world trusted America.
Now American companies will be paying the price for political decisions they didn't make, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
And no election in the USA will magically restore that trust.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Called it. He waived everything tonight, a day before the deadline. Every tariff, every sanction, and the one provision that gave Congress a vote.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
Congress is trying to take back control of Russia sanctions. After a month of sanctuary for Putin and hostility toward Ukraine, Congress introduced a bill that cancels the diesel license, blocks the Kushner-Witkoff Lukoil deal, and fixes the Graham Act’s holes.
The Graham Act is a weak tool for forcing the Trump administration to act on Russia, even if it's a strong signal of support for Ukraine. It lets Trump waive every sanction and tariff in it with one letter to Congress saying it’s in the national interest. The waiver never expires and Congress doesn’t have to approve it (watch for that letter, or for nothing, this weekend).
Most sanctions laws put conditions on waivers and force presidents to renew them. The Graham Act doesn’t. @RepGregoryMeeks tried to add that in September and the Rules Committee kept his amendment off the floor.
The diesel license and the last 12 months of doing nothing with the same Russia options already on the books are a preview of how those waivers get used.
The Meeks and @RepDonBacon bill has no waivers. What it does:
🔹cancels the five Russian oil licenses by number
🔹bars Treasury from writing another one for three years
🔹bars the DFC from any deal involving Russian-owned energy
🔹orders sanctions on Russian oil producers, refiners and tankers within 30 days
🔹gives Congress a vote on any future Russia energy license until State certifies the war is over
The Graham Act was written for a president who wanted to act on Russia. This is a good first step for a Congress that now knows he won’t.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Here is the thing I’ve learned being in Judge Reyes’ court. She isn’t summoning government officials just to swing her power around. In the hearing @BaniasLaw and I had with her, she asked DOJ for an answer. They couldn’t give it so she told them to get ICE counsel. They didn’t have an answer because the decision was made above them. So she said she’d keep going through the chain of command until someone could provide simple answers to basic questions.
The issue with the current administration is that they are executing things at the top, and then get indignant about being asked about those (many times unlawful) decisions.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
To put this in laymen's terms, Musk and Trump are now hobbling Ukraine's ability to protect its civilian population from a type of Russian drone that functions more like a cruise missile. This is not the United States adopting a neutral position vis-a-vis the war. This is the United States facilitating Russian terror.
Ukraine's Starshield terminals still don't work properly, President Zelensky confirms, disabling Ukrainian interceptors used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones that have been hitting civilian targets in recent weeks.
kyivindependent.com/planned-…
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
This is not the exception. This is how they operate
Story Time: Buckle up for this one.
Patient called today pissed off. They weren’t pissed at me, more so pissed at their insurance company @DevotedHealth and @CVSHealthPBM
For the past month, @DevotedHealth has been pestering them about switching their medications over to their mail order @CVSHealthPBM
First it was atorvastatin and Jardiance, because they said the patient would have “cheaper” copays.
The patient called us to verify those prices.
Our prices were identical to what they would have paid at mail order.
Patient told @CVSHealthPBM NO!
They wanted to stay local.
A few days later, patient gets a message from @CVSHealthPBM stating they had two prescriptions waiting to be sent to the patient. Just needed the go ahead to mail them out.
It was for the same 2 prescriptions they had said no to a few days prior.
Patient called them back and told them no, they want to continue getting them locally…. That was the end of it.
Until today…
Patient called back and said now @CVSHealthPBM has another prescription for metformin ready for me and has already mailed it out.
It’s a prescription we have been filling at our independent pharmacy all of this calendar year at a $0 copay.
Patient told them, I didn’t authorize you to get this prescription ready for me at mail order, how did you receive the prescription?
@CVSHealthPBM told them that their Dr. had authorized a new prescription for them.
Patient calls their Dr.
Dr. states they never sent a prescription to mail order @CVSHealthPBM
So, let me sum this up and put a nice little bow on it for you:
@CVSHealthPBM requested a new prescription from patient’s Dr. without their consent.
@CVSHealthPBM prepared the new prescription for patient without their consent.
And finally, @CVSHealthPBM mailed out the prescription for the patient without their consent.
I don’t know who is ultimately at fault for this, but it’s damn sure not the patient…
The patient keeps saying NO, but @CVSHealthPBM says we don’t give a shit, we’re going to do it anyway.
@CMSGov @DrOzCMS @RobertKennedyJr @realDonaldTrump
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
this is a 50 year completely intentional project by conservatives to recreate an aristocracy and peasant class system in america
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
So the White House put Americans who work at the embassy at risk, and trusted the Russians to target only Ukrainian facilities. So guess what that means? The White House coordinated with Russia on targeting.
If true, this is a very big deal. Not just in terms of Ukrainian lives that were lost. I’m not sure if people realize that this put the lives of US embassy officials and US citizens at large in Ukraine at great risk. This is madness. The White House did this. I’ve never seen anything like this in my career. Heads should roll. If true…
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Just to note how stupid this system is...we just learned that 15 days ago, the Dept of Education awarded a brief contract to consulting firm Accenture to oversee sending emails to student debtors.
It's a $350M contract.
So it costs more to *service* the debt than to cancel it.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Translation: HHS got a bunch of answers they didn't like and are now threatening scientists for not finding new facts for them.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
They are going to privatize federal student loans. This is really bad.
Oh and for those wondering yes this absolutely was part of Project 2025’s plans
SCOOP: The Education Department is making plans to offload student loans from its purview.
The Federal Student Aid office would be an independent agency. The goal is to spin it off within a year, which employees say will sow chaos for 45M borrowers
washingtonsun.com/administra…
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
A Georgia man gets tased by Coweta County deputies at a gas station over a seatbelt violation—on private property where the law doesn’t even apply. Charges dropped. He sues for excessive force.
While that lawsuit is pending, the same sheriff’s office runs his plate through Flock 5 times over 197 days, querying 6,000+ camera networks nationwide. Justifications entered: “info” and “37.”
He felt followed and watched near his home and business. Ended a 6-year contract servicing another PD’s vehicles because he no longer felt safe.
This is exactly what Flock enables: retaliation against people who challenge them.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Meta tilting the elections in Brazil - it sounded like a conspiracy theory, but (a) it refuses to do signs for Lula, and (b) when prompted with a very light banner, it fills it up with propaganda.
Amazing.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
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Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Danny Trejo's son posted this about his father's upcoming movie. It's very sad and eye opening
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
This a real escalation by the federal government.
I've mostly said "Calm, calm. It's going to be OK" with respect to federal involvement in election administration.
This lawsuit -- in October, in the middle of early voting -- that asks election officials to disqualify certain voters based on suspect databases, not conclusive evidence, which definitely could have been alleged BEFORE early voting began...
This does represent an escalation.
Shucks.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Utterly surreal. Trump is explicitly admitting that he was relying on Putin's bot farms to manipulate US voters in the mid-term elections.
Has any previous POTUS ever demanded that a hostile foreign nation must be allowed to interfere with American democracy? Naked treason.
Jonathan Pryor retweeted
Because the constitutional crisis is over, and the constitution didn’t survive it. When the president ignored court orders, overrode Congress on funding, and started whimsical wars with no authorization, he became a dictator. There is no more constitution as it existed before
How is this not constitutional crisis territory?
nbcnews.com/politics/trump-a…
