I like Congressman Ruben Gallego:
"I will gladly work with the President when his ideas aren't stupid and detrimental to the United States," says Rep. Ruben Gallego on his opposition to Trump sending troops to the Mexican border https://t.co/UyY7v7LGss pic.twitter.com/Pt9eZRZJVa
— CNN (@CNN) April 5, 2018
Trump has been ginning up hysteria for the last couple of days about a “caravan” of Central American immigrants in Mexico, hinting darkly about crime and drugs and national security. It’s 100% bullshit. What we’re talking about here are a little over a thousand unarmed people — many of them women and children — who are fleeing violence and poverty.
The Golden Horde they ain’t. This afternoon, the Pentagon is holding a news conference about Trump’s order to send the National Guard to the border. Fox News has the alleged border menace on continuous loop, as if this pitiful collection of desperate people are a grave national security threat. It’s all so goddamned stupid and sad.
Trump could have extorted tens of billions for his racist vanity wall from Democrats who want to protect American kids in DACA status, but he can’t negotiate his way out of a wet paper bag, so he got bupkis. The screechiest racists his base are disappointed there isn’t a big “Fuck you, wetbacks!” wall to crow about.
So, Trump is sending officials out to lie about fence repairs constituting “The Wall” and wasting untold stacks of money on an unneeded deployment of national guard troops. That’s all this is. Kudos to Rep. Gallego for pointing that out.
Anyway, open thread, I guess. Le sigh.
LAO
But, but what about his First Amendment rights?
trollhattan
Speaking of our awful administration, Zinke countemove on Pruitt for worstest label.
Ha-ha-ha, fuck you, gopher tortoise! Make up your stupid tiny minds, are you gophers or are you tortoises? Guess it doesn’t matter now, does it?
Corner Stone
Let me summarize the Pentagon presser: “We’re re-assigning a few DoD Project Managers to draw up big, beautiful graphs to show Trump. And we’ll waste plenty of money coming from nobody knows where. But it will temporarily salve the man-baby’s yoog ego.”
trollhattan
@LAO:
Well that didn’t last long, did it? Which resurrects the question–why bring him on in the first place?
Corner Stone
@LAO:
They had no business hiring that asshole in the first place, but this may be the best news I hear all week.
trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
Can they kill two birds with one stone by having Trump’s ginormous military hardware parade somewhere near Brownsville?
Hungry Joe
Author Luis Alberto Urrea (“The Devil’s Highway,” “The House of Broken Angels”) last month on “Fresh Air”:
“I’m telling you, this wall is a boondoggle. It’s a joke. And … the eight new [prototypes] of wall that President Trump claims he’s finally going to go see, I’m telling you, one day it’s going to be a kitschy tourist stop for ironic hipsters. It’s going to be spray-painted. It’s going to look like Cadillac Ranch and people are going to take selfies at it. But it’s not going to start a multibillion-dollar Great Wall of China project. I promise you. There’s no way to build it.”
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone: They should also fire Reihan Salam and publicly apologize for McMegan Argle Bargle
TenguPhule
aren’t
TenguPhule
@trollhattan:
Zinke needs to find a corporate lobbyist’s head in his bed.
Corner Stone
@trollhattan:
Preferably in late July or early August, which I have heard Brownsville is an unlivable hellhole during said time.
Eljai
I love Rep. Gallego’s framing! Hope other Democrats are paying attention.
eric
@Corner Stone: i would assume Tina Brown will sweep in and be cutting edgier.
No Drought No More
Remember when Brownsville, Texas was threatened with being wiped off the face of the earth from missiles launched from commie Nicaragua? If you were alive when the Reagan administration was essentially spewing the same line of bullshit, you should.
Betty Cracker
@LAO: Best news I’ve heard all day!
Corner Stone
@trollhattan:
Ahh, I remember fondly back in my yoot when me and my buddies got high AF of some good quality Mexican delta smelt. Good times.
LAO
Sometimes the lack of context on twitter leaves me baffled. This is one of those times, from Trump’s rally in WV:
ETA: I can’t tell if he thinks this is a good thing, bad thing, or what the fuck is he talking about.
eric
@LAO: sea levels?
Chyron HR
@LAO:
“We’re reaching dementia levels that shouldn’t physically be possible.” – Neil “Degrassi” Tyson
Corner Stone
I still love that our good friends Manchin and Hietkamp voted Yes to confirm Pruitt in a 52 – 46 vote. And Zinke somehow got 67 Yeas to 31 Nays. Just beautiful.
LAO
@Betty Cracker: I still thinking the doxing of Ricky Vaughn by Paul Nehlen is good too.
LAO
@Chyron HR: Christ on a cracker:
MattF
@LAO: And it was only yesterday that Williamson was an upright (if, y’know, a wee bit abrasive) young man. Things change so fast.
Chyron HR
@LAO:
“I am not a kook.” – A. Kook
piratedan
@LAO: well I am incredibly pleased that the Atlantic extended themselves to have Mr. Williamson be a member of their staff only to find out that he really is an unrepentant asshole that everyone else says that he is…
I only wish the same courtesy can be extended to many other folks out there that are busy punditing while being a POC or worse yet, a person of a non-male gender who actually might have an opinion or ideas that would add to the national discourse.
Roger Moore
I don’t think this is the correct interpretation of events. I think what’s happening is that Trump is revealing his real priorities. He cares far more about blocking Dreamers from becoming citizens than he does about border security. Building the wall is a great propaganda slogan to gull the rubes, but it’s not what Trump and his backers want. They want a permanent underclass of poor people with no rights who they can ruthlessly exploit, which requires that illegal immigration continue. That’s why all their immigration enforcement focuses on terrorizing immigrants rather than punishing employers who knowingly hire them.
bemused
@LAO:
I guess I don’t have to cancel my Atlantic subscription after all…yet. Will wait to see if Goldberg makes any more asinine hires.
Gin & Tonic
@LAO: How long is that in mooches?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@LAO: Considering how unself-aware Trump is, his desperate need to be seen as the victim and to ciam anything successful as his, it sounds like Trump is trying to co-opt the “Me Too” movement.
Josie
@Corner Stone: You heard correctly. I would not want to make the troops suffer this way, but I would like for Trump to have to stand on a reviewing stand without shade for the entire parade.
Gin & Tonic
@LAO: Since I blessedly know who neither of those people are, I’ll leave it to you to render the opinion.
ruemara
@LAO: Literally thousands of women complained, there was screenshots of his tweets, his writing, but the podcast was the straw.
MattF
@bemused: Maybe he can fire himself for questionable judgement.
jc
This is what Trump does, he manipulates information to gin up controversy, and he uses other people’s misery to manufacture cheap shot political advantage for himself. A white woman is accidentally shot by an undocumented immigrant, and Trump twists the facts and turns it into a major hate point in his cult stump speeches. He ignorantly misrepresents the DACA people, but it’s by design, to muddy the issue.
Jeffro
Speaking of stupid and detrimental…heeeeeere’s Wilmer (well, a pretty good take on him, anyway):
He’s yesterday’s news. Fresh faces please!
LAO
@Gin & Tonic: If you care to read about it — here’s a link (Paul Nehlen is a right wing nut case from Wisconsin).
eric
@ruemara: but they were women. QED
bemused
@LAO:
No one really knows and it just hurts the brain to try to figure it out. When the guy blurts out his gut reactions coupled with what Fox news fills his head with, it’s nothing but putrified word salad.
schrodingers_cat
@Roger Moore: Agreed. Hating on immigrants is electoral gold as shown by the President. He never had any intention of giving DACA holders a reprieve. He is the one who rescinded DACA after all.
germy
@Jeffro:
His son and stepdaughter?
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
They wanted to have more intellectual diversity, but have such a narrow, blinkered view of the world that they were unwilling to look beyond established media figures when trying to find it.
MisterForkbeard
@LAO: Hopefully the news orgs run this with the caption underneath of “This is a conspiracy theory”.
FlipYrWhig
@Roger Moore:
That’s what moneyed Republicans and capital want. That’s not what Trump wants. Trump wants ethnic cleansing. He’s trying to get rid of brown people. He doesn’t have any understanding that brown people come in different kinds until and unless he meets particular individuals whom he’ll reluctantly decide are “one of the good ones,” then he’ll go right back to thinking of them as Mud People. He’s a horrible person full of hate and spite, and that’s what his fans like about him, because they are too.
Joe Falco
@trollhattan: Must we have every villain from the Captain Planet cartoon be in charge of U.S. departments?
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
Shhh, you’ll upset Mx4 with talk like that.
bemused
@MattF:
Ha.
LAO
@ruemara: This made me laugh:
FlipYrWhig
@jc:
You give him too much credit. He’s just an ignorant racist dumbass who sees things on TV and yells back.
TenguPhule
@LAO:
So that’s how he’s planning to nullify the CA vote in the nationals this year.
Gin & Tonic
@LAO: The time I have left on this Earth is too short.
FlipYrWhig
@LAO:
This means “brown people.”
@LAO:
This means “brown people.”
Roger Moore
@LAO:
I think that should be “The Doxing of Ricky Vaughn by the Coward Paul Nehlen“.
MattF
@LAO: But brown-skinned people are voting! That’s not allowed!
ETA: And don’t forget that Trump claims he actually won the popular vote for President. He lies about everything all the time.
MisterForkbeard
@TenguPhule: It’s one of those things where noting that Manchin and Heitkamp aren’t great Democrats is useful, especially insofar as we can try and push them to be better. But it’s not particularly helpful in the larger scale. Are they more valuable in their seats than the Republican alternative? (yes) Could they be replaced by better Dems in a primary who would then win in the General? (Probably not). Trying to make them even LESS popular amongst Democrats is probably a bad idea.
In which case, continuing to complain about them is counterproductive and generally furthers a “Democrats suck” narrative that’s also not helpful.
LAO
@Gin & Tonic: Fair enough!
@FlipYrWhig: Thanks for the translation. I just sighed really loudly.
gene108
@Roger Moore:
Maybe some business interests want this, but the true believer xenophobes want to ethnically cleanse America of non-white people.
First they said they only objected to illegal immigration. Now they have moved to kick people out, who are here legally, such as people, who have been here for 20 years on temporary resettlement visas. They are trying to make avenues for legally immigrating here harder.
A significant number of business interests actually backed Bush, Jr.’s immigration reform. It removed their liability of hiring low wage foreign workers.
MisterForkbeard
@TenguPhule: Man, if only they had literally any evidence of this whatsoever. It’s not like they haven’t spent decades trying to find it and failed miserably, is it?
Roger Moore
@bemused:
My Magic 8-ball says “Signs Point To Yes”.
trollhattan
@LAO:
Architecture? Levels like the mezzanine and penthouse?
LAO
@trollhattan: I have to admit, I chortled.
kindness
Good to see The Atlantic getting rid of rotted wood there. Even though they brought it on themselves just a month ago.
Can we please get the NYT & the WaPo to now do the same thing?
Pretty please?
rikyrah
LMAO!
ruemara
@germy: Fresher, non-griftyier, non-lying asses, faces.
@FlipYrWhig: You are correct. People simply do not want to understand that. They don’t want a permanent underclass of browns. That’s the plan for whites. They want to murder all the other races and have a permanent servant class of whites.
Roger Moore
@FlipYrWhig:
I’m pretty sure Trump wants a permanent underclass, too; that’s why he’s so eager to hire foreign guest workers for his businesses rather than American citizens. I think Trump would be just fine with there being brown people around as long as we could do away with that annoying 14th Amendment birthright citizenship.
Corner Stone
@MisterForkbeard: There was no reason for them to vote Yes. None. None then and none now. How about advocating for Democrats to be a little more hardball when it counts? Their vote on Pruitt isn’t going to alter their election one iota. You think any undecided is going to eye that vote and think to themselves, “Hmmm…what I really want is someone who can work across the aisle! Now where’s muh ballot?”
TenguPhule
@MisterForkbeard: The problem is that as big assholes as they tend to be now while in the minority, think about how much worse they’ll be as the deciding votes in any Senate majority.
I remember that fucking asshole Lieberman.
rikyrah
@LAO:
Break out my tiny violin
TenguPhule
@rikyrah: We can expect that on the first of never, then.
germy
The WSJ (like the NYT) is full of collaborators.
tobie
@TenguPhule: Heitkamp is heading in the direction of Zell Miller.
MisterForkbeard
@TenguPhule: Yeah. But they’ll still be mountains better than having republicans in charge.
Corner Stone
@piratedan:
You know what they call a person like that, right? A witch. Then they see if she can float.
Jager
Good thing trump didn’t pay attention in school, he’d love “Indentured Servitude” he’d be humping it as a market based solution for immigration. Young Mexican girls who look like Selena Gomez would be in great demand.
LAO
I very rarely “crush” on celebrities but I have a particular fondness for Jason Isaacs (who has a particular good twitter game) —
TenguPhule
@MisterForkbeard:
The risk is that their bullshit will cripple the national agenda and cost us the majority.
Like Lieberman and his fucking fellow blue dogs did.
Corner Stone
@germy: But I have reliably been told that the WSJ’s “News” dept are walled off from Murdoch and the Op-Ed section? And they play it straight with valuable reporting?
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
But do they weigh as much as a duck?
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
I’ll still take being a 51-49 majority with Manchin and Heitkamp as the last two votes over being a 49-51 minority with Republicans in their places.
Joe Falco
@TenguPhule: Lieberman was truly the most insufferable of them all. In the alternate timeline where Al Gore didn’t have the presidency stolen away from him, I shudder what VP Lieberman would have done to the country. Probably nothing nearly as bad as what he actually did as senator, but still, a sci-fi writer can imagine…
Victor Matheson
Perhaps I just always think too much like an economist, but how much is it costing to mobilize the National Guard versus how much would it cost to simply rent about 20 buses, pick up the entire wave of refugees, and simply house and feed them for a while?
germy
@Corner Stone:
Open floor plan.
TenguPhule
@Victor Matheson:
But the money wouldn’t go to the right/white people!
Jay
@Roger Moore:
They wanted more writers on staff to troll the “libs” and “dirty hippies” for clickbait.
Roger Moore
@Joe Falco:
Very little. One of the benefits of the Vice Presidency is that is has very little power and not a lot of media exposure. I bet VP Lieberman would have gotten less attention than Sen Lieberman.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@TenguPhule: Is that really what cost Dems their congressional majorities in 2010? A national agenda crippled by blue dogs like Lieberman? It’s hard to have 60 Dem Senators without some major ideological diversity, so I don’t understand the alternative.
Corner Stone
Another reminder that Always Wrong Bloody Bill Kristol remains a non-ally “ally”:
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Roger Moore: We can’t afford to squeak by in the Senate like that. Like it or not, Dems need a broad, diverse coalition if we are to drive the Republicans into irrelevance.
Roger Moore
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
The practical alternative would have been to do away with the filibuster and actually get stuff done. I understand why it didn’t happen, but the 2009-2010 session of Congress would have looked very different if the Democrats could have passed stuff with 50 votes + Biden.
LAO
Can this possible be true — I’m giggling like a deranged toddler:
Jay
@Victor Matheson:
$12 million in direct costs for 1,200 for a little bit less than a year, not adjusted for inflation.
Corner Stone
@LAO: I am having a hard time making 2 + 2=4 in this tweet? I don’t have access to the original article.
BretH
@No Drought No More: We were going to get drowned by the “Red Tide” that was at our door. I remember, all too well.
Wapiti
@Josie: Well, if he’s standing in the summer sun, let’s make it a long ass parade, maybe march the same units past him, around the block, and past him again. Maybe have water stations on the other side of the block so the troops can stay hydrated.
Thoughtful David
@bemused:
I’m guessing that it was the number of cancellations that caused him to reassess the hire.
LAO
@Corner Stone: I don’t either, but the opening lede reads as follows:
MomSense
@LAO:
I have a wicked celebrity crush on him, too. Did you see him in Case Histories?
tobie
@germy: It’s an odd reversal of affairs when the NYTimes domestic news section is considered more partisan than the WSJournal’s. What kind of news organization decides to base it’s reporting on the work of a known right-wing hack like Peter Schweitzer and his book Clinton Cash? I expect that from Fox and it’s painful to see the NYT’s domestic political coverage sink to the same level.
FlipYrWhig
@Roger Moore: Maybe I jumped to conclusions because I currently live in a vacation/tourism-economy-powered town where there are a lot of young people waiting tables with the looks and accents of the former Soviet Union, but I was under the impression that a lot of the foreign workers TrumpCo hires are Eastern Europeans. I think he’s a lot keener on pale-skinned foreign workers than brown-skinned ones.
FlipYrWhig
@LAO: I hope this isn’t the male equivalent of “slut-shaming,” but just how many women in the Executive Branch has Rob Porter been boning?
Alex
They desperately want to make this caravan into a scene out of Steve Bannon’s favorite book, The Camp of the Saints
rikyrah
@Roger Moore:
UH HUH
UH HUH
Joe Falco
@Corner Stone: The philistine part is just comedy gold. Hey Bill, do I get to be called an uncultured swine too for wanting garbage people like Williamson tossed out on their ear for their repellant views?
zhena gogolia
@LAO:
God, these major media outlets just do not know how to do their homework, do they?
Jay
@LAO:
Samantha Davis outed her ex-boyfriend Rob Porter’s wifebeating to the White Supremacy House,
Ex White Supremacy House staffer Rob Porter outed Pruitt’s Fiscal Peccadillo’s at Interior, to the White Supremacy House.
LAO
@FlipYrWhig: I don’t understand the “slut shaming”?
@MomSense: I lurve him, of course!
Gelfling 545
@Chyron HR: Exactly. It’s like he WORKS at it.
Corner Stone
@LAO: I read the lede but I guess I am just not getting where Pruitt fits in? If Samantha Davis dumped Porter, and even if she ratted him out about abuse, why did he choose to out Pruitt? And then wait until she resigned to do so? zif this was a romantic spat I don’t see how Porter is getting back at Davis.
Corner Stone
A reminder: I want to have allll of Sally Q. Yates’ babies.
Citizen Alan
@Corner Stone:
The most pathetic thing about it is that they only fired him after confirming that he was serious. Because joking about the mass murder of women was fine.
LAO
@Corner Stone: I have no idea if this is remotely true, the funny thing is, it wouldn’t surprise me if it were true. He may have leaked the info prior to her resignation, who knows? I’m hopefully that we’ll find out though.
ETA: Dravis, the former girlfriend and Pruitt Aide, resigned today, so it’s seems likely that the ethical violation leaks were before her resignation.
Barbara
@Jay: Is that the same woman that Porter was living with when he started dating Hope Hicks?
FlipYrWhig
@LAO: I was being ironic. I know I’m not supposed to cast aspersions on people with a lot of sexual partners, but I’ll happily cast hella aspersions on that dumbfuck abuser Rob Porter.
rikyrah
@gene108:
Remember…
it was all about the CRIMINALS….
that’s how they sold this bullshyt.
Those paying attention knew otherwise.
Now, they’re rounding up people who don’t so much have a parking ticket in this country.
ICE needs to be abolished. Period.
LAO
@FlipYrWhig: I wasn’t being critical, I didn’t get the joke. Which I’m sure says more about me than you…or does it?
Jay
@Corner Stone:
Pillow talk with Samantha gave Porter payback,
Samantha resigned when the salary shenanigans came out, via Porter.
As a wife beater, Porter will “fuck over” anybody supporting an ex, and Pruitt supported his ex with a move, a job, and a raise.
These morons are the “burn the village down to get rid of the fleas” type.
MattF
@Corner Stone: One should bear in mind that Kristol was actully bad enough to lose his job as an NYT columnist. A wonder to behold, that.
Barbara
@Citizen Alan: The idea that it was a joke was always a dodge because, at the same time, they credited him with being “consistent” in his convictions (e.g., if a fetus is a person why wouldn’t women be treated the same as any other murderer?). Neither “joking” or “equivalent treatment” explains why he specifically called for “death by hanging,” which, of course, doesn’t happen anywhere in the U.S. anymore and hasn’t for a long time. For me, the coup de grace however is that Williamson hates poor people, and he especially hates poor families and taking care of young children whose existence he very clearly thinks should have been avoided in the first place by their maladapted parents.
ETA: Which is to say, in the world as envisioned by Williamson, abortion will be even more urgently necessary for many women than it is now.
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
No. They want all of the racist nativist agenda. They are pushing bigotry into the mainstream. This morning, as part of a story about California counties fighting the sanctuary cities law, people were interviewed who simply want all illegal immigrants out, no matter whether they are law abiding or have criminal records.
There are also renewed calls to rescind laws which allow undocumented people to get drivers’ licenses. Note that this would make it harder for undocumented people to get work and to get to work reliably. The people who would exploit the labor of undocumented people are being overruled by the bigots who want to make it so hard for illegal immigrants to live here that they would supposedly self-deport.
Also, as I noted before the new tax law accelerates the oppression of undocumented residents by stripping away their right to claim certain tax credits. And this also makes it easier in some ways for unscrupulous employers to take more advantage of illegal immigrant workers.
Citizen Alan
@Joe Falco:
I have said for 16 years that Gore would have won if he’d picked literally anyone on his shortlist other than Lieberman. If he’d been smart enough to pick Ben Nelson, it would have been a cakewalk.
Corner Stone
@LAO: Hmmm…I’m not sure what the heck is going on:
CBS News
Jay
@Barbara:
Not sure, it’s all so incestuous it’s hard to keep track.
It’s like “The Death of Ceasar”, but where the assassin’s spend all their time, shiving eachother, not Cesear.
LAO
@Corner Stone: It’s a mystery wrapped up in an enigma — will we ever know the truth?
Citizen Alan
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
Lieberman did literally kill the Medicare Buy-in proposal singlehandedly. I think things would have been at least a little easier with Ned Lamont. There were other problem Senators, but I don’t recall any with an axe to grind as big as Lieberman’s.
Corner Stone
@Jay:
Did you just use “Porter” and “Payback” in the same sentence? Yes. Yes you did.
Corner Stone
@MattF:
And yet he still shows up on MSNBC’s air all the time. A wonder, that.
Corner Stone
@Citizen Alan: He was all for it. Until he found out who was actually for it.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
I think one of the reasons immigration is so unsettled politically is because it cuts across our normal political groupings. The Republicans can’t make up their minds about immigration because the business wing of the party wants plenty of cheap immigrant labor to exploit, while the racist wing wants to throw the untermenchen out. The Democrats have done a slightly better job of making up their minds, but there are still working class Democrats who are worried about the effect of immigration on their jobs.
Brachiator
@LAO:
Apparently, Isaacs is friendly with the BBC Radio 5 film team of Kermode and Mayo. He has been known to send them Twitter messages from TV and movie sets. And they often include a “hello to Jason Isaacs” along with their interviews and reviews. Listeners of the show have been known to say hello to Isaacs if they run into him in person, and he cheerfully acknowledges them.
Gerald
@LAO: Great news!
Oh … the Atlantic is NOT the Federal or State government!
Gerald
@trollhattan: Yet ANOTHER stellar example of GOP/Republican governance in 21st Centry America and it ain’t pretty!
Gerald
@LAO: He’s feeling left out!
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
Again, Trump is the wild card. He is a racist nativist. This is manifestly clear in his listening to the Ann Coulters and the Tucker Carlsons. Trump fundamentally believes that nonwhite people are inferior, that they cannot be assimilated, and that their presence diminishes America. And again, he is trying to make his views policy, and tires to make these beliefs acceptable to all citizens by demonizing these groups.
Trump has overridden the views of the business wing, just as he has with his crazy tariff war. And I don’t think that any conservative pundit has pushed back hard on any of Trump’s immigration views. There have, for example, been stories that Trump’s targeting of undocumented workers have made it harder for the agricultural industry to get workers, but it’s tough shit, agri-business.
Trump’s policies also make it harder for employers who want to treat undocumented workers fairly.
A cynic might say that in the past, anti-immigrant Republicans would turn a blind eye as the Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP sought to employ undocumented workers. But Trump and the anti-immigrant hard liners have declared war on immigrants and Trump doesn’t give a shit about how it affects employment.
Yeah, right. Here, as you note, Trump does not go after employers and neither Republicans nor Democrats try to fight for workers as effectively as they could. So much easier to scapegoat immigrants.
Bill Arnold
@LAO:
Piss-poor opsec on his part. Tell no-one. Or use your real name.
A few guides for the (truly) paranoid:
COMSEC Beyond Encryption (Slide 45 – “TRUST NO ONE”) (That’s a really funny slide deck for security geeks.)
Twitter Activist Security
EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has some basics here: Surveillance Self-Defense
TenguPhule
@Brachiator:
Employees don’t contribute as much money to campaigns as their employing businesses do.
Bill Arnold
@Bill Arnold:
To be clear, trust is possible (e.g. there are people that I personally trust, and there is the whole US security clearance apparatus (and other national equivalents) as a large example) but it must not be the default.
Rand Careaga
@MattF:
Whenever I have occasion to refer to David Brooks, I append the Homeric epithet “second-dumbest man ever to hold a regular op-ed gig at the NYT.” Second place, of course, because in that category Kristol’s mercifully abbreviated tenure makes him Padishah Emperor for Life.
Procopius
As I understand it, the “caravan” is an annual thing. It’s basically a protest of American immigration policies, and it’s conducted in Mexico because Mexico is a free country. Oh, wait … Anyway, in past years they came up close to our border and made some speeches, and then went home. The Mexicans let them. This year is different.